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Liminalidad y comunidad: La disolución de lo urbano en la Unidad Vecinal de El Taray: [Liminality and communitas. The blurring of urban orderin the Neigbourhood Unit of El Taray]
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå School of Architecture.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1987-6737
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå School of Architecture.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2644-2427
2020 (Spanish)In: ZARCH, ISSN 2341-0531, Vol. 14, p. 86-99Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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La Unidad Vecinal de El Taray (1962-1964) fue encargada por la Cooperativa Pío XII para un escarpado solar en la cara norte de la ciudadela de Segovia. Por su organización alrededor de espacios colectivos, así como por sus galerías abiertas y conexiones aéreas, el conjunto ha sido relacionado con el Neobrutalismo y las teorías del Team 10. Sin embargo, más allá de las etiquetas, puede decirse que El Taray es consecuencia de una imperiosa necesidad de adaptación a la topografía, a los requerimientos funcionales y a la escasez de recursos. Todas estas condiciones pondrán a prueba la inventiva del joven Aracil hasta producir un buen número de avanzadas soluciones que sesenta años más tarde aún dan cuenta de su frescura y pertinencia. De entre ellas destaca su esquema socioespacial, un sofisticado tejido de circulaciones y significados ambiguos que hacen que el conjunto de viviendas se difumine entre lo exterior y lo interior, lo lejano y lo cercano, lo colectivo y lo individual. El presente artículo pretende superar la tradicional lectura del caso desde la clasificación tipológica o la asimilación a corrientes arquitectónicas coetáneas para ofrecer una actualización crítica que pone el acento en su condición liminal como clave de su sostenibilidad social, material y urbana. Para ello lo vincula al presente analizándolo desde la idea de sistema habitable que extiende su influencia a la comunidad que lo habita y al contexto en el que se inserta.

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The Neighbourhood Unit of El Taray (Segovia, 1962-1964) was commissioned by the Cooperative Pius XII for an sloped site on the north-east edge of the citadel of Segovia. Given its fragmented layout around collective spaces as well as the way it makes use of aerial connections and galleries, the complex has been typically linked with the British Neobrutalism and the experiences of Team 10. However, beyond its adherence to a certain movement, we can state that El Taray is the consequence of a pressing need for adaptation to topography, to functional requirements and to material scarcity. These conditions will challenge the creativity of the young Aracil motivating him to devise a good number of advanced design solutions that sixty years later still prove their freshness and relevance. Notable among these is its socio-spatial scheme, an intricate network of significances and circulations that blurs the housing complex between the exterior and the interior, the distant and the close or the collective and the individual. This paper seeks to overcome the traditional reading of El Taray —from the idea of typology or the assimilation to contemporary architectural movements— to present a critical update that emphasizes its liminal condition as key for its social, material and urban sustainability. To this end, El Taray is linked to the present by being analysed from the notion of habitable system that spreads its influence to the community that lives in it and to the context in which it is inserted.

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Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza , 2020. Vol. 14, p. 86-99
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-187718DOI: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020144299Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85096506584OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-187718DiVA, id: diva2:1595415
Available from: 2021-09-19 Created: 2021-09-19 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved

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