PLATFORM FOR SHARED STREET VIA CANTONALE PUBLIC SPACE

The structure was designed in a metallic structure system, since it provides three essential characteristics for the project conception.

1. Resistance and firmness: the structure allows us to have both, heavy and light uses in the same structure without distinguishing different structural elements or systems.

2. Versatility: Being the platform a large linear element, the structure needs to have the capacity to easily adapt to the topographic variation.

3. Aesthetic values: this type of structure has the possibility to provide great resistance and firmness with light elements, this allows us to have minimal impacts in the landscape and the ground. The structure, even being a heavy and solid infrastructure, don’t have a strong visual impact in the landscape and have minimal impact on the ground.

The structural system for this intervention was designed as two independent structures. On one side, the stairs were designed in a metallic structure continuing with the system of the shared-street platform.

On the other side, the public space and lookout structure is based in a retaining wall, recovering Gandria’s building tradition, but being developed in a new and modern way, easier to build but with the same resistance. This wall is proposed in stone elements that its geometry and the tongue and groove colocation of the elements allows the structural system to have very good resistance, the possibility to cover great highs and a very natural finish with simple elements.

This type of retaining wall is cheap, very simple to install, have minium damages in the ground, and all of this fully complying with the technical and structural requirements.