Cantabria
Alejandro VIRSEDA AIZPUN (ES)
Ignacio VILA ALMAZAN (ES)
José Ignacio CARNICERO ALONSO-COLMENARES (ES)
José JIMÉNEZ (ES)
architects
Europan 7 Santoña
runner-up
Exploring urban limits and creating new centres of economic activity and services to halt the phenomenon of dispersion of cities is the basic theme of the project.
Due to its condition of urban limit, the project is based on a double commitment between the city and the marshlands.
This duality is resolved by generating a large urban space overlooking the sea. The driving force of the project is to make use of the port’s warehouses to formalise this new space. A meeting place accessed by the streets, and from where the road leads along the coast to the marshes. The intervention must be based on civic vocation, which must be an unarguable generator of the contemporary city.
Site informations
Santoña
Synthetic site file EN
This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Typology
The project proposes a horizontal cloud-like megastructure, in which the individual units act as a collective umbrella forming a roof over the public space below.
Shared spaces - Intensification by superposition
An immense multifunctional public space overlooking the sea, below the elevated housing slab, acts as a mediator to create a relationship between marshland and town.