Reticular Matrix Planning methodology
The Madrid Plan used Reticular Matrix Planning methodology (Ordenacion Reticular del Territorio - ORT).
Metropolitan Madrid has a natural directionality along the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain ridge. This main directionality, along with the Tagus valley, has produced a natural pattern of reticular human settlements. The Madrid Plan used this natural pattern to constitute the basic reticular board for larger transportation infrastructure. The traditional radial-orbital system of metropolitan growth was transformed into a large grid-reticular system.
The metropolitan system was decomposed into five subsystems:
- Environmental ('Green' infrastructure)
- Transportation ('Grey' infrastructure)
- Housing
- Economic activities
- Social facilities
The last three subsystems exist within the compatible, continuous networks of the 'Green' and 'Grey' infrastructure subsystems.
The metropolitan territorial system was composed of two layers of scale intervention:
- The Urban layer (scale 1:5,000), which constituted the ‘fabric’ of the metropolitan system and was conformed according to an urban location model called the BUD (Balanced Urban Development - Unidad de Desarrollo Equilibrado)
- The Metropolitan layer (scale 1:50,000), which constituted the ‘form’ of the metropolitan system and articulated the structure of the metropolis with regional and national functions
The urban layer corresponded to the municipal authority. The metropolitan layer corresponded to the regional (Comunidad) authority.
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