Majorca City new waterfront. Europan 13. Special Mention
Location: Majorca City, Spain
CLIENT: BALEARIC ISLANDS GOVERNMENT
Date: 2015
Status: Europan competition. Special Mention
Budget: 436.240.000 €
Area: –
Authors: Tomeu Duran, Jose M. Ros, Jorge Giménez, Lara García and Carles F. Baeza
Collaborators: Daniel Ippolito & Lluís Bort
CURRENT SITUATION
PROPOSAL
The aim of the Europan project in Palma was to define an adequate spatial policy for what is surely one of the most important open spaces of the city: the waterfront.
The main idea of our proposal was to recover the symbiosis that historically existed between the city and the sea, disrupted today by the dynamics of mobility imposed by road traffic. In order to provide more ambitious solutions, our project extended the area of consideration far beyond the actual strip of the waterfront. Bearing in mind these goals, we developed the following three strategies:
1. Coastal axis
By restructuring the road system, we created an intensity gradient of road traffic which was sensitive to the functional and formal peculiarities of each section. A tram line was incorporated, whose stops, strategically placed in the intersection of the renovated urban connectors and the seafront promenade, acted as catalysts for activity.
2. Inland connections
Strengthening the linkage between the waterfront and the city behind: Palma’s waterfront should be reconsidered within the context of the street spaces and squares that connect the urban tissue and the sea. Giving depth to the thin strip of the waterfront by means of articulating the links to the urban network may be a way to absorb the pressure on the waterfront and to “urbanize” the seafront at the same time. Our proposal strengthens a city to be lived on foot, thus encouraging the connections from the inner city to the seafront promenade through the recycling of the pre‐existing urban structure and the use of minimum resources that takes account of the current economic context. This is a strategy in which the exploitation of the urban planning of torrents of built‐up areas as a track of the natural path towards the sea, thus encouraging their green spaces and the pre‐existing spontaneous vegetation as an environmental and landscaping resource.
3. Erasing boundaries
To unify the municipality and the port authority areas and to create other new leisure areas on the Palma seafront promenade, we connected the city and the port sides through creating several calmed traffic squares along the waterfornt.
FURTHER INFORMATION
EUROPAN RESULTS
EUROPAN JURY REPORT
EUROPAN ESPAÑA RESULTS
EUROPAN EUROPE CATALOGUE
EUROPAN ESPAÑA AWARDS CEREMONY
BOE
MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO
SECRETARÍA DE ESTADO PARA LAS ADMINISTRACIONES TERRITORIALES
GOVERN DE LES ILLES BALEARS
CSCAE
COAIB EXHIBITION
SLIDESHARE PRESENTATION
MEDIA
2016·05·11
ECONOMÍA DE MALLORCA: La fachada marítima, clave en los proyectos de Baleares reconocidos por los Premios Europan
MALLORCA PRESS: La fachada marítima, clave en los proyectos de Baleares reconocidos por los Premios Europan/13
2016·05·06
20 MINUTOS: El Coaib acoge desde este viernes una exposición con proyectos premiados en materia de sostenibilidad y urbanismo
2016·05·05
MALLORCA PRESS: El Colegio de Arquitectos acoge mañana la presentación y exposición de los proyectos premiados en el concurso EUROPAN/13
2016·05·04
ÚLTIMA HORA: Una ciudad abierta al mar
2016·04·18
DIARIO DE MALLORCA: Simbiosis con el mar
2016·03·20
ÚLTIMA HORA RADIO-ARQUIDIAL
(minutes 38:47 to 58:17)
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