Tag Archives: Sants

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

BUILDING, RAMP AND DIAGONAL

BUILDING, RAMP AND DIAGONAL

Due to its proximity to Sants neighborhood, the space left by the former Citroën plant could potentially become a community space and also an access point to the new elevated promenade over the railroad tracks and Av. Brasil/ Riera Blanca.
Hypothesis- The new covering of the railway track could be the opportunity to include a a new bus line connecting Barcelona with Hospitalet.
Barcelona’s bus network system (orange), Hospitalet’s bus network system (yellow) and the new proposed line, following the railroad geometry (red).
New volumes could be envisaged in order to establish new connections between the three existing different levels, thus introducing diagonal relationships through the big open space next to Brasil Avenue.

Comment on the project by Isaac Vergara

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

FROM ST. EULÀLIA’S GARAGE

FROM ST. EULÀLIA’S GARAGE

The building of Santa Eulàlia’s garage could potentially be transformed into a new centre for the neighbourhood due to its strategical position between the different existing levels. New linkages could be displayed to allow buses to go down from the railroad’s covering level through a new ramp.

The transformation of the building could include new public facilities in order to complement the transformation of the Citroën plant.

In red, new bus stops over the railway tracks. In yellow, new planned facilities.

Comment on the project by José Xiao Caamaño

SEQUENCES

SEQUENCES

A systematic vision of the different sequences of the relation between the railroad covering and its surroundings lead us to think about a better exploitation of the area. By a set of strategic interventions, more accessibility and urban intensity could be achieved, thus reinforcing the relations between the two sides of the railway tracks.

New crossed views complement a longitudinal approach, by adding new uses in the in-between spaces, creating a dialogue that strengthens transversal connections.

Comment on the project by Júlia Muñárriz

A NEW PLACE FOR THE INTERMODAL STATION

A NEW PLACE FOR THE INTERMODAL STATION

New plans for future metropolitan public transport system foresee La Torrassa station as an interchange between the L1 and L9 Metro lines, and two other railway lines, those leading to Vilanova and Vilafranca.
A new metropolitan intermodal station is proposed in order to decongest Sants Station and to improve the general accessibility and performance of the system.
If the new station building was placed partially underground and strategically located by the street axis of Gornal-Rosalia de Castro Streets, it could inspire a new park project as well as a platform that could connect the upper and lower neighborhoods.

Comment on the project by Adrià Orriols

FROM LA TORRASSA TO LES PLANES PARK

FROM LA TORRASSA TO LES PLANES PARK

The project arises from the hypothesis that a new lineal park could establish a connection between the railroad junction and Les Planes Park up to Collserola.
A large park hides the railway tracks and provides a new façade for the surrounding urban fabric of Santa Eulàlia. The green link between Lla Torrassa Park and Les Planes Park is provided by Catalunya Avenue.
A green corridor replaces the existing noise and train traffic.

Comment on the project by Guillem Ros

A PLATFORM FOR THE PARK

A PLATFORM FOR THE PARK

This solution proposes the extension of the platform to La Torrassa Park. The new buildings both create a diverse combination of volumes, stairs and ramps and also a new central space in the hinge between the different neighbourhoods. The longitudinal direction of the urban space is thus reinforced.

Comment on the project by Ernest Planes

BRIDGE-BUILDING

BRIDGE-BUILDING

The exercise leaves the tracks uncovered, taking advantage of the gap between the two borders, strengthening cross-connections with bridges connecting the streets of Collblanc and la Torrassa with Carretera de la bordeta, the spine of Santa Eulalia.

Two new traces cross the Park Torrassa. One is proposed as a bridge-building that hosts new spaces and ensures compatibility between footpaths, bicycles, cars, buses and trains.

Comment on the project by Montse Pastor