Category Archives: Sants · Estació
A CHAMALEON EFFECT
A CHAMALEON EFFECT
Sants station is like a great box losed to its surroundings. But in fact, there are streets, small squares, blocks and houses around. It could be imagined that the station could be remodelled by extending the traces of the surroundings streets inside the station.
The strategy is to understand it as a orner between two perpendicular axis, Guitard Street as the cardus and Av. Roma as the decumanus. That overlapping with its surroundings will generate a set of urban spaces, boulevards and squares, thus enriching the transition between the inside and outside of the station.
Comment on the project by Clara Terradelles
STRETCHING THE WINGS
STRETCHING THE WINGS
The intervention defines a new form for Sants station by occupying the front and rear areas. It is an attempt to break with the current dichotomy between the main and full of life front façade and the more unused rear one.
The middle space is converted into a central urban corridor while Rrespecting the current access to the platforms. Two wings extend from the centre to the east and wWest direction and host new programs and facilities.
The station takes a clear longitudinal guideline: in one hand it connects with Numància-Tarragona street axis and, in the other, it re-organizes a new façade and a new space facing Sants neighbourhood.
Comment on the project by Nerea Castell
A LIFTED OPEN HALL
A LIFTED OPEN HALL
The bus lines map shows clearly the blocking effect produced by the station as almost any line continues from one side to the other. The project deals with this situation and suggests the overlapping of the different levels of traffic, a common strategy for intermodal nodes.
By rising the entrance hall at the first floor level, it allows to free up the central space of the building. The ground floor becomes a continuous space only interrupted by the vertical accesses linking the basement with the first floor.
Bus, tram, bicycles and pedestrians can cross through this in-between space embedded under the station hall and on top of the underground platforms.
Comment on the project by Carla Compte
RESHAPING THE GROUND LEVEL
RESHAPING THE GROUND LEVEL
The connection between the station’s front and the rear is solved by integrating its roof to the city. Now it is currently occupied by activities that could easily be relocated. The project suggests the allocation of a bus station that could gather local and long-term bus interchange.
Vehicles would go up the station through a sloping ground plane, thus reinforcing the current intermodal condition of the station.
The sloped plane generates a new topography that gives space for new programs at the lower level and, at the same time, opens a new viewpoint to the city.
Comment on the project by Manel Domínguez
A PARK ON THE ROOF
A PARK ON THE ROOF
Although there is almost no clear relationship between the station and Espanya Industrial Park, its position and scale could have a more important role at this particular area of Barcelona. We can take advantage of the lost square meters of the station’s roof and convert it as a great collective space that could complements the existing park.
This proposal considers the potential of the station’s roof as a green carpet and takes the opportunity to open large skylights for the main hall underneath.
This new masterplan more complex and rich that the existing improves both the quality of the surrounding area and the station’s internal configuration.
Comment on the project by d’Adriana Campmany
