The works that are being carried out as the first phase for the extension of the tramway up to Santa Justa, through the San Francisco Javier and Luis de Morales avenues, and in parallel the renewal of the rainwater collector network and the redevelopment of the “green ring” Annexed, the first built by the Municipality and the second by Emasesa, are works in the central part of the so-called Ronda de María Auxiliadora, which extends from the Ronda Histórica to reach the territorial passes that cross the valley from the bridges of King Juan Carlos I and the Queen Sofia.
This cross street constitutes a first-class urban enclave due to its condition as a central space for growth east of Seville between two main urban ring roads; the Ronda Histórica, around the wall, and the Ronda del Tamarguillo. And it is a fundamental part of the city by connecting the main radial roads that articulate the eastern extension of Seville – Ramón y Cajal, Eduardo Dato and Luis Montoto, where important and numerous urban structures are located, the main one being the train station. of Santa Giusta.
For this reason, these avenues transcend their narrow urban environment and have the ability to establish themselves as one of the identity reference points of the city of Seville grown east of its Historic Center, which requires that the works to be carried out also contemplate this potential of the place.
We suggest inserting plastic and artistic elements, with sculptural elements of lasting materiality for centuries.which give relevance, comfort and scenic beauty to the urban fabric of the city, introducing one of the elements that characterize the city with its rivers: water.
This proposal would be in locating the springs at the crossroads of the aforementioned radial roads crossed by roundabouts by the new means of public transport.
On the island that is produced at the Ramón y Cajal underground tram junction this fountain would rise above the emerging tram track, transforming its sculptural group into a reference of the great urban perspective created in San Francisco Javier. Y at roundabouts with Eduardo Dato and Luis Montoto the fountains would have lateral vases attached to the two sides of the tram passage. In both, the raised sculptural group could be placed on its straight side, adjacent to the tram corridor, creating the background for the perspectives.
Currently, the second section of the tram that will take you to Santa Justa station. It is undoubtedly the occasion for the necessary remodeling of its messy headroom environment as this main nerve center of arrival in the city deserves, today occupied by surface car parks, equipping and ennobling it with a square in front that could well be arranged around it with a large and beautiful monumental fountain, the culmination of this axis marked by the presence of water.
A qualified leap forward in the landscape and in the universal dimension of Seville, extending and expanding the exceptional attraction of the Historic Center to the extensions of the city, in this case to Nervión and San Pablo; a notable improvement, still possible, of the symbolic urban image of Contemporary Seville.