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Fernández-Ges, Andrés.

The plan was finished in December 2003, but the Delicias area was just beginning to define
urban planning and the City Planning Department preferred to wait to the other area´s design.
The plan had to wait more than a year to be published. In that period of time there was a major
change, including a residential building in the southern part for 220 dwellings, as a result of
political agreements to include some more works inside the ZAV Agreement.

Fig 20. Aerial view of El Portillo area in 2002.
Source: ZAV.

Fig 21. Master Plan of El Portillo, G-19-1 area, in 2005 by Zaragoza City Planning Department.
Source: City Planning Department.

15. Urban planning in Delicias area, AC-44.

ZAV launched in April 2003 the competition of the Master Plan in Delicias area, AC-44. The
main objectives of the design were removing the infrastructural barriers between the two
neighborhoods of Almozara and Delicias, solving the existing differences in ground level, giving
priority to pedestrian and public transports, creating a relationship between the urban and
natural environment, developing a mixed-uses area, displaying public facilities to the needs of
citizens in different levels, quality architecture, materials with energetic efficiency and new
urban infrastructures, such as subterranean technical galleries and automated waste collection.
Several teams presented offers and in September 2003 the competition was won by a Spanish
multidisciplinary team with local representation called Entorno 3. The team was composed by
IDOM Engineering and several local architects, such as Julio Clúa and Manuel Castillo, with the
collaboration of Javier Monclús, among others.

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