Sustainable Transport Center

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Sustainable Transport Center

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Commercial › Retail Exhibition Center
Industrial › Research Facility
Transport + Infrastructure › Parking

URBAN INSERTION The intervention site corresponds
to a typical plot in Barcelona's grid; a block that embodies the
regular typology of the Eixample. Diagonally sectioned by an arterial road, it
is characterized by its triangular plan. PROGRAMME There was a consideration over the
impact of the object would have on an urban scale. The idea is that it is
not confined to the lot, but possesses a greater connection with the
surrounding operations. The charging station, for example, is not reduced
to a mere post function, but is turned into a parking of 350 spaces for the
neighborhood, all coupled with an vehicle recharging outlet. TYPE Given the 150 years of Cerdà’s plan, the goal is
to promote a reinterpretation of the court typology and its guiding
principles. The project establishes a total occupation of the block,
concentrating the living spaces and the circulation along its perimeter, hence
organized around a large central void. SPACIALITY The research center is treated as an
extension of the city. The public space enters the building. This
continuity of the exterior with the interior is a synthesis of the city
movement, an urban extension of the route that comes to shape the indoor
spatiality. The ramps are the formalization of this movement, a fluid space
that spans and interconnects the various activities within the center. Honorable mention ate the CUTBCN Achmedium
competition.