With this article I open a series that will gradually appear on sites in Valparaiso. Always be preceded by the title "Places. Although the main idea is to show and reveal what may be particular about a place, the articles in this series may not be exempt from any opinions or simply can lead to reflection resulting therefrom.
Locations: Valparaiso High Road (stop, stop, and leave or just patching)
was in the 70's when designing an elevated track that would solve the problem and the flow of vehicles between Valparaiso and Vina del Mar Av Spain. A great project which began to run at a time the government of Salvador Allende and then simply be left forgotten by the next government, for obvious reasons.
Personally, I remember that Chile was a little obsessed with the issue of elevated tracks, a sign of development and modernity, concepts as pursued by the country until today.
This project which almost no information on the Internet was singular. The idea was to connect from bridge Capuchins in Caleta Abarca a high speed road out over the sea, passing over Recreational spa, just above the pool (now in "archaeological sites"), would be to Portales, following the coastline on the railways and their turntable to connect with Baron knot.
Work began at different stages and in the field opposite the University Portales Santa Maria, where they raised an impressive stretch quite literally has seismic laughed at the last large earthquakes. Huge pillars to support the continuation of it was Baron, a huge concrete boxes civil work ...
... all this he was arrested, suspended and finally abandoned. In the 80's, the first arrangements were made to transform this "mega-structure" of Portales in a public promenade and some of its pillars viewpoints. A new drop of the whole place became the new ruin until recent studies that have used all the coastline in what is now known as walk Wheelwright.
Also in the 80's the whole project was replaced by the expansion we now know as a route between Viña del Mar and Valparaiso. Av Spain it was extended to four runways and other large civil works took the idea of \u200b\u200bconnecting Caleta Abarca (Capuchin bridge) with a coastal road that joins it to the height of Recreation. Much less pretentious and risky than the original.
The evidence of this first abortive original version could be observed in different places. In the structure of Nudo Baron had a clear space for the connection to the pathway that would from Viña del Mar. Over time they have "makeup" this evidence making it almost invisible and no one even remembers the famous causeway project and no one wonders why this "mega" Caleta Portales lookout walk.
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I find it interesting the whole process of "stop, stop, leave "so typical of our culture and especially in our city. Use this to draw a bit of our character, the way you usually act when an administration inherited from the previous works. For considered emblematic, it is not continue or abandon it or let it die. There are many examples. The ship Santiaguillo rotting and disbelief at the sight of visitors as beggars appear on the cover as grotesque piratical.
A Plaza Sotomayor in turn enabled as open space without parked cars and beautiful luminaire ground level at night gave him a beautiful lighting very European and define the pedestrian areas and car flow. Today the lights have disappeared completely, no one ever noticed nor changed; Place looks dark the night and its boundaries have been demarcated pedestrian with "heritage" yellow lines have also faded.
A museum in situ in the same area where you could see part of the buried archaeological remains in Valparaiso, the bow of the first Emerald captured the pirate Thomas Cochrane himself shipwrecked in place for a storm and that shows the original waterfront and the location of early spring. It was never known to use either site and ended by having an erratic sell crafts inside. The ground glass could see the place your feet as you walked (And that turned the interior into an oven unbearable) was scratched and eventually break down and nobody repaired it. The place is closed and suspended ...
An Open Air Museum that remains largely abandoned to its fate, the plates of his paintings have disappeared, they look damaged boxes and signage on how to find them look blurry, neglected and ugly.
I stop to think about this culture of "patch." A heritage city needs to circle the nut so ingrained concept and eradicate it completely. Continue the work and keep those already made by others regardless of whether they were emblematic for a previous administration. The culture of the patch is horrible and ending noted. Only beautifies ugly and a city like Valparaiso requires prioritizing the concept of urban work, prioritizing it even on other subjects, since it is a city that is selling a certain kind of beauty and culture.
suspend, stop and leave, should be the response to the practice of ...
... stop, stop, and leave or just patching.
Leo Silva
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