Tag Archives: Continuïtat

TO SANT JOAN DESPÍ

TO SANT JOAN DESPÍ

This proposal articulates a new Avenue to St. Joan Despí at the main highway space. The different relations between the Highway and its built surroundings are analyzed and with a systematic strategy a new organization is proposed that provides continuity to its sides, providing sidewalks, tramways and green spaces.
The open section of the Avenue allows to propose platforms where parks and facilities can be located, following the example of Ronda de Dalt. Some punctual interventions intensify the urban fabric and the tissues that form the new façade.

Comment on the project by Minerva Ramírez and Carlos Tugores

ON EITHER SIDE

ON EITHER SIDE

Diagonal Avenue becomes a highway after its last traffic light, beside the RACC’s building. How could we extend its urban continuity?

The north side could continue through Sant Joan de Déu’s Hospital after crossing Cervantes Park reverting its current eccentric position. At the southern side, another arm can connect with the sports area with a straight trace that could be parallel to Ronda de Dalt improving the connection with Collblanc streets.

Comment on the project by Víctor Morer, Sandra Pou, Joana Rahola, Joaquim Sellas and Jorge Suárez.

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

BRASIL / SUGRANYES: AN UNDERPASS

BRASIL / SUGRANYES: AN UNDERPASS

Riera Blanca Street was a former stream and now it goes under the railway track and creates an enclosed urban space in the free space left by the former Citroën plant.

A new connection between Av. Brasil and Sugranyes street is proposed in order to create new urban continuities under the railway. By extending Sugranyes St., a new Y-shape structure is created at Av. Brasil axis.

A new building follows this guideline and could solves the connection between the different slopes, allowing a dual condition of Av. Brasil.

Comment on the project by Marc Alemany

A STRAIGHT STREET WITH TRAMWAY

A STRAIGHT STREET WITH TRAMWAY

The project starts with the design of a straight street right through the middle of the infrastructure junction and without affecting the two main flows. This solution could help to reduce the impact of the large loops that allows the connection between the traffic of the Ronda Highway and Gran Via.
As a response to the idea of urban continuity, the Gran Via façade is extended into the cloverleaf, thus transforming it into a park with a wide range of facilities.
The tramway becomes the main element of the new street, connecting the two sides of the river, allowing an easy access to the new facilities and improving the accessibility of the Besòs river park.

Comment on the project by Aina Pont

CONTINUITY IN TWO STAGES

NEW ALIGNED STATIONS

NEW ALIGNED STATIONS

Two new tramway stops along the Gran Vía Avenue become theorigin for the transformation of the area.
The first one is located between the railway and the new axis Via Trajana-Sant Ramon de Penyafort St. It provides new facilities to ensure the continuity between the Gran Via Avenue and the vertical street pattern.
The second one is located by the river, improving the accessibilityof the isolated blocks of La Catalana as well as introducing leisure facilities into that privileged position.
The urban activity as a result of the new stops aims to revitalize a third existing stop located right after the second one under the highway where now lies the market.

Comment on the project by Carla Patsi