Project name: AAPL
Author: ONYON arquitectura + interiorismo
(Ion Zubiaurre Ros y Hugo Prades Claessens)
Colaborators: Jone Arruabarrena
Client: Elgoibar City Council
Type of work: Competition
Work performed: Project design
Location: Elgoibar (Gipuzkoa)
Date: 2018
Surface: 8500m2
Photography / infographic: ONYON arquitectura + interiorismo
When mentioning this small square, every resident of Elgoibar thinks of a personal experience in this square. Some of the friendly soccer matches played in the youth, the cakes, the long hours spent in the church of San Francisco, the bullfighting festivals of San Bartolomé, the fair day, the bars, etc. But this has been the center of passage and experience of citizens, which has been filled with cars, traffic, noise and noise in recent years. From being a place of citizens and being a stable, it has become an automobile and an automobile that has left the public. Clearly, the importance of the automobile and transportation in today’s life is clear. However, local strategies should include the general organization and pedestrianization of spaces and squares in the city center, recovering people’s lives and removing the automobile from the city center, limiting and ordering its use. This trial proposed by the City Council can be located within this general strategy.

