Irreplaceable
Dolores Vitoria RUIZ GARRIDO (ES)
Juan Jose RUIZ MARTIN (ES)
Juan ASTORGA MORANO (ES)
Rocio SALVADOR PULIDO (ES)
architects
Sara RUIZ GARRIDO (ES)
environmental Engineer
Javier León TORRES (ES)
drawing
Javier NAVARRETE FERNÀNDEZ-NIETO (ES)
photographer
Rosa CASTELLANO BENAVENTE (ES)
economist
Europan 7 Ventspils
winner
To recognize this fragment as an essential part of the history of this country. Urban and social acupuncture for the resolution of the integral problem. Everything emerges from the reinterpretation and the understanding of what already exits. The intervention protects the historic nature of the district. Typologies from other realities are avoid. The Visitor Centre as an attraction to come into the alive history of Ventspils. Touristic information, The Culture Square (Old Soviet Auditorium) will be a covered square, excavated in its interior. Big boxes finished in local wood and situated in the actual backstage, like a belvedere over the town, to rediscover the beautiful landscape of Ventspils. Revitalizing the Ostgal´s winter. The Big dune of “sand” recompose the landscape like a gift to nature. Ostgals was born to protect Ventspils of the sand, now the sand protects. Social reactivation through new houses for young people, new typology bussiness-home, new hotels inside traditional 2-storage barns.
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Site informations
Ventspils
Synthetic site file EN
This project is connected to the following themes
Shared spaces - Intensification by superposition
The revitalisation of this residential fragment is achieved through different operations. With regard to public space, the project constructs a new seafront landscape, an artificial dune incorporating the different programmatic elements.