Torrenova is located in a relatively peripheral area of the city and is surrounded by recent constructions of poor quality, which have been dispersed to the extend that they have suffocated most possibilities for a sensible type of public space to flourish.

Two distinct but complementary strategies have been applied in the definition of the masterplan:

-       the first goal was to conceive a design with the highest possible environmental quality, capable of amplifying the sensation of living in a kind of island with respect to the chaos of the city: a place where everyone can re-appropriate of his/her own ecology;

-       the second objective was the construction of proper urban fabric, capable of transmitting the sensation of belonging to a larger community. Here, the city is conceived as a dense and complex place, where the urban spaces function as places for encounters; a territory with a social potential.

On the scale of the territory, the design defines a new linear edge porous and differentiated, creating an ambiguity between being part of the of city and part of the park. This edge crossed by a network of pedestrian and cycle paths, is open towards the green spaces as well as towards the surrounding city: the private areas and the collective condominium gardens reinforce this system and the network of public paths and thereby form a fresh injection of a sense of the public domain within a otherwise private and segregated context.