Pavements – unfinished.es

Renovation of the port of Malpica

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:04:13 +0000

Guidelines to walk without a floor, on top of a wall, a freeboard or rip-rap. Starting with a single base element: precast concrete with a standard width of 122cm and variable lengths. A system for the creation of public space was postulated using a limitless sequence, which could admit complex situations of position and use. The construction, whose extent and form is established according to necessity, can be extended, modified and even transported to another location. In fact, the system was invented for the opposite hillside from the one that was finally built. This is a project in which the architect and engineer focus their investigation on how to open and expand the space of a port from which public use has been gradually disappearing, while preserving activity and work flows. The project discovers an intermediate level on which it is extended, creating a new, unexpected ground level. This new space, constructed using cantilevers and ramps of variable widths and shapes, connects the different levels between the elevated streets of the town and the water level, providing a new way to pass through and perceive this enclave defined by the force of a highly constructed natural landscape that maintains the identity of the towns of A Costa da Morte.

Credits

Renovation of the port of Malpica

Location:
Puerto de Malpica (A Coruña) España

Architects:
CreuseCarrasco. Juan Creus Andrade / Covadonga Carrasco López

Team:
Francisco Rosell, Estefanía Vázquez, Roi Feijoo, Belén Salgado, Alexandre Antunes, Bárbara Mesquita, Laura Coladas. Structural Engineering: Thema.

Area:
13.710 m2

Photography:
Xoán Piñón

2006-2009

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The environs of the Born Market

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:03:27 +0000

The market building, which contains a huge piece of the medieval city that was destroyed in 1714, has reopened its doors as a historic-cultural facility. A re-opening that, at an urban level, offers an enormous new covered public space, almost like a porch, framed by a unified architectural backdrop, the Fontserè porches. The paving is an element of connection with the history and memory of the place. The final result permits a reading on two levels. On the one hand the reading of the distant memory: the definition of the layout of the medieval streets through subtle changes in the cobblestones and the reproduction of the location of built elements uncovered during the excavations. At the other level, the materiality is linked to the more recent memory of the place. Its use as a market within the continuity of the unified character of Fontserè’s nineteenth-century operation. The continuous granite cobblestone paving identifies the intervention and makes a sensory connection with the collective imagination. A large part of the cobblestones were removed from the existing streets and reused in the same area.

Credits

The environs of the Born Market

Location:
Mercado del Born. Barcelona

Architects:
Vora Arquitectura: Pere Buil y Toni Riba

Project team:
Adrià Guardiet, Miquel Camps, Jordi Riba, Eva Cotman, Ondrej Fabian Mechanical engineering: PCG arquitectura e ingeniería

Area:
14000 m2

Photography:
Adrià Goula

2009-2013

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Pedra da Rá Overlook

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:02:52 +0000

This intervention originated as a proposal to improve the space associated with a geological formation known as the “Pedra da Rá” –frog stone-. First, an existing lookout built in the 1980´s in the form of a concrete stair that led to the top of the rock formation was demolished. In addition, excavation and earth movements were undertaken to reveal the rock formation in its original state, highlighting its exceptional geological and formal characteristics. Once the aggressive elements were eliminated, a space was constructed around the stone outcropping that serves as the origin point of a multitude of paths leading to other nature areas, including the “do Vilar” beach, the Corrubedo dunes and the “Castro da Cidá”, a recently excavated Celtic fort. The project is a collection of different possibilities for manipulating granite to form paving, limits, benches, stairs, etc., all of which contribute to the delicate relationship of the great rock to its surroundings.

Credits

Pedra da Rá Overlook

Location:
Riveira. A Coruña

Architect:
Carlos Seoane

Project team:
María Montero, Eduardo Castrillón, Oscar Fuertes, Adrián Río y Raquel Ferreiro (architects); Luis Romero (technical architect); Marcial de la Fuente (engineer)

Area:
3-300 m2

Photography:
Héctor Santos-Diez

2013-2016

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Turó de la Rovira

moon — Sun, 01 May 2016 00:01:15 +0000

Iberian village; agricultural settlement; anti-air defence bunkers for Barcelona (1937-38), to defend the city from the attacks of the fascist air force; from 1940 to 1990 the “Los Cañones” shantytown; communication tower; abandoned space; 360º lookout point over the city of Barcelona and, finally; open-air museum. The Turó de la Rovira is all of these things. The restoration highlights the scars left by everything that has existed on the site; it permits the appreciation of the different uses that a space can have depending on the era. We could say that there is an appropriation of the space depending on the interests of society at any particular moment. The new use of the space, superimposed now on top of the previous ones, is an imperceptible frame that makes visible everything that has gone before. The Turó de la Rovira has changed from being a space in movement, everyday, to a space for contemplating history, an open-air museum and, for the city, a lookout point.

Turó de la Rovira

Location:
Turó de la Rovira. Barcelona

Architects:
Jansana, de la Villa, de Paauw arquitectes SLP, AAUP Jordi Romero associats SLP

Team:
Technical architect: Modest Mor; Architects: Guillem Gascón (AAUP), Carlota Socias (JDVDP); Archeology: Jordi Ramos; Mechanical engineering: CVC Ingenieros; Agricultural engineer: Eduardo Soler; Museu D’història de Barcelona, Memorial Democràtic, SGS, Limonium SL.

Photography:
Lourdes Jansana

2009-2014

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