The Urban Rexeneración area has studied the importance of expanding the list of buildings protected by the master plan in various districts of the city. Atochas, A Falperra, Eirís, Monelos, Os Mallos, Sagrada Familia, Os Castros and Mariñeiros are the areas in which it is expected to catalog a hundred buildings or sets of buildings which, in many cases, have survived successive development environments in popular areas.
The municipal administration will bring a modification to the general plan to the plenary session next week to add about twenty buildings which, according to the urban planning managers and according to the recommendations of the Xunta, deserve protection. This is the case of the market or the school of Pablo Picasso. But the modification of the urban planning document will not stop there. The Municipal Administration will entrust an external company with the drafting of a more in-depth extension of the list of architectural, ethnographic and archaeological assets.
For this reason, the Urban Regeneration technicians have prepared a draft in which they list “the real estate and urban elements that can be included in the catalog of protected assets”, with a section dedicated to “urban complexes”. “It’s not a firm proposal”, but “recommendations” for the study. There are two “casuerie”: that of the buildings that deserve to be catalogued, not so much for their individual qualities, but for their role as part of the urban “fabric” of which they belong; and that of the first residential complexes of cheap houses from the city: the houses of Claudio San Martín (Os Castros) and Mariñeiros.
►“Labyrinth of Atocha”. “It may have been the historic district most disfigured by the recent phase of building speculation”, the technicians point out, recalling that its urban planning has never been studied “as one of the first districts of the industrial proletariat of the city”. “If in feudal society, Pescadería represents the urban fabric of the predominantly seafaring working class, the neighborhood of Santa Lucía, the strip of Cordelería or A Gaiteira constitute their analogues of the first industrial revolution,” they reason. The characteristic residential property of these neighborhoods is “line housing”, ranging from a couple to a half-dozen properties. “Right now the examples that remain are testimonial and isolated,” the draft adds. The preliminary urban list includes buildings in Atocha Alta (9), Marconi (3), Travesía do Traballo (3-7), Independencia street (5, 7, 11, 19, 21, 25, 29, 32 and 34), Via Salgado Somoza (6, 8, 10, 12, 28, 32 and 34).
The document lists Atocha Crossing Group 2 to 12, but because they belong to a planning area, they acknowledge that “it will be difficult in the short term to lift the disappearance sentence.” Apart from these typologies, they indicate that it is necessary to study the pavement of Marconi’s odd numbers (5 and 7), of Montroig’s 2 and of Veramar’s numbers from 23 to 33. In San Lorenzo street, the projects of Peregrín Estellés in the Second Republic stand out, with a “priority” building on the corner that opens the street (number 5 Andrés Antelo). The document, which leaves the presentation of several proposals open to the editors, closes this neighborhood with 42-44 Rey Pedreira in Adelaida Muros.
►The Falperra (Gurugu). Although they claim that the construction process is similar to Ace Atochas, the chronology (the constructions are much later, most of the 1920s) and dimensions (both the houses and the ensemble they belong to are older) are different. ; . . . . Legislation and planning were in a more mature stage, which facilitated the coherence of such ensembles and a “more regular” fabric. Pay particular attention to being the “founding” area of the “X” neighborhood of Sinforiano López and Juan Castro Mosquera streets. The prominent properties are in Sinforiano Lopez (50 and 52), Juan Castro Mosquera (27, 36 and 44) and Villa de Laxe (8), Falperra (51-53).
►Residential complex of Eiris. They are numbers 30-38 of avenue Montserrat and 25-31 of Lázaro Cárdenas (Gallego Jorreto, 1988). It is the only modern set in the list. A coherent set of terraced buildings, in line, a construction model that was “majority in the city” but “practically eliminated in the last three decades”. They claim the “only reason” to include it is the “disfigurement” produced in the fabric by alterations to elements such as carpentry and upholstery.
►monelos To the two buildings identified by the Xunta in Avenida de Monelos (117 and 119), the technicians add others in Callejón del Lagarto (4, 6, 8 and 12).
►Extension of Os Mallos. Urban Planning applauds the fact that the 2013 catalog recognizes the value of the “little Ensanche de Os Mallos”, something unprecedented in the previous floors (eight blocks between Falperra, Noia, Cronista Pacheco and Antonio Viñes streets). As a novelty, the curators are now looking at a complex around the Plaza de la Paz (1930s), whose urban planning was not planned but which became a precious bridge between two growth axes of the time: the Segundo Ensanche and the Ensache of Os Mallo. The buildings recommended for their protection are numbers 1, 13, 15, 17 and 19 Eusebio da Guarda, 28 Oidor Gregorio Tovar, 3 and 8 Noia Street and 11 Santander Street. Without constituting a characteristic type of neighborhood, they include San Luis (6, 8, 10 and 25) and San Vicente (9).
►Origin of the Holy Family and Agra. The epicenter is the intersection of Avenida de Finisterre and Calle San Sebastián. It is the origin of the neighborhood and also one of the growth centers of Agra. Rationalist buildings from the 1940s survive in San Isidoro, San Leandro, Cardenal Cisneros, Maravillas… “These blocks currently represent the largest concentration of small-scale rationalist architecture in the city.” The “first specimens detected” are in Calle Maravillas (10 and 22), González del Villar (7, 9 and 10), San Isidoro (6) and San Leandro (14 and 16). The curators cite the “analogue” case of Agra: via Pascual Veiga (33, 46 and 53-55), Observatorio (25 and 27), Villa de Negreira (17-25) and José Baldomir (20 and 22).