Resumen de Boetticher y Martini: dos ejemplos de implantación industrial en el territorio
Taking as a reference two industrial constructions of different category –one that belongs to the heavy industry and the other one to the light industry – we analyse two of the factors that intervene in the function of the constructed form: its singular occupation in the territory and its interaction ofeach of them in the city.The first one is the manufacturing plant of Boetticher y Navarro in Villaverde, standing as an example of heavy industry. The other one is themanufacturing plant of Martini y Rossi, representing an example of lightindustry. Both construction types applied directly from the urban planningschedule of Madrid released in 1946 and both built in the years after theCivil War and because of their production expansion plan outside the innermetropolitan area of the city where their previous manufacturing locationsbecame unfeasible.The location of the manufacturing plant of Boetticher y Navarro was chosenbased on the urgent need to find a territory near the city and with goodconnections to infrastructure like the road to Andalucía and the railwaynet. The size of a 172.000 square meters of manufacturing and logisticsplant construction and more of 148.000 square meters of a housing colonyfor the employees, give us an idea of the impact in the territory and theinteraction with the nearby village of Villaverde and subsequently with thecity of Madrid.The other example of the manufacturing plant of Martini y Rossi shows uson the contrary an intervention in a reshaped territory surrounding thatimposed the form and the distribution of the building. Once chosen thelocation close to an important traffic axis (the road to Barcelona), the project had to be modified due to the expansion works and access to the Barajas airport.The relationship of the two examples with their surroundings, either as avictim or as an executioner, will lead the reflections on both interventionsin the territory.
