Fayón: el manifiesto adaptado: la reinterpretación del espacio rural urbano según José Borobio Ojeda

Abstract

The colonial urbanization was a collective and strongly directed by Franco’s administration. The space in which the architects of the National Colonization Institute (INC) raised the bulk of his work as planners found itself constrained by a number of biases, preconceptions and imposed conditions. Aesthetic standards, street systematization, principles in the formulation of the building layout, regulation of functional housing programs are examples of the prevailing administrative suffocation. However, some architects as José Borobio Ojeda managed to subtly divest the institutional ballast and to create its own path, a personal quest sustained throughout his work towards modernity. An example of the particular path taken by José Borobio Ojeda is the new village of Fayón projected in 1965 as a consequence of the construction of the Riba-roja and Mequinenza dams in the Ebro River. Posed as the culmination of his career serving the INC, as it is the last of his urban projects, the new village of Fayón goes away from the orthodoxy of the colonial doctrine, much more relaxed in those years. These factors, along with sensitivity and intelligence of Borobio, allow proposing a resounding project in the shape, diverse in the defining of the urban space, yet sensitive to the physical and social context.