GENERAL INTERVENTION GANDRIA’S WATERFRONT

The general intervention is related to the water itinerary in which we want to highlight the historical and botanical value by improving the connection between the two trails: The porposed water walkways and the existing Olive’s path.

We want to enhance this area which is the main access from the lake, and because of its great natural value related to vegetation and water. This is the point of arrival the “door” of those who “enter” and also the point of physical connections, so called “the threshold” between Gandria and the rest of the city.

We identified this wasted zone at the lake level which serves as a natural bridge for native species and human activities. We want to be prepare for massive tourism but also to promote local activities making this place a space for living.

Thats why we want to recover the coast-line with a system of docks creating a new water front composed by two pricipal interventions. One is the new harbor and public space in front of the cemetery, and the other is a more diffuse intervention with floating walkways along the lake front of Gandria. General

Intervention Point 2

GANDRIA’S NEW HARBOR AND PUBLIC SPACE

The new Gandria’s harbor is located in front of the existing cemetery being the connection point between the olives path and the proposed walkways which we call water itinerary.

We chose this potential point since it has the necessary space for the development of all the services and port facilities necessary for people and ships. By improving the existing infrastructure, we want to recover this beautiful place and its native vegetation.

We are proposing both a port infrastructure but also a new public space for locals and tourists. The intervention is made up of two types of docks, one supported by piles for the arrival of large ships and the other ones with a floating system for smaller boats and people. There are also some platforms that serve as leisure areas where people can develop different activities such as reading, relaxing and sunbathing. In the water voids we propose a system of modular docks, where people can enter the water to swim arround or climb on them.

Intervention Point 3

Port System

In this part of our intervention, the Olive’s trail meets the water itinerary and we want to materialize this experience. Taking distance from the port, we can frame Gandria and the olive tree path as a postcard of the place also bringing the attention to visitors to areas such as the San Virgilio church.

The purpose of this intervention is to create through a system of ports that serve as structuring agents to generate a kind of walkways in the water that allow us to visualize Gandria by means of landmarks.

In this area two systems are used to support the platforms and the walkways, the first system is a platform that serves as support, and the second one is a floating system for the surfaces from the coast.

Floating islands and walkways

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Pedestrian infrastructure elements

connectivity elements of the system

Stairs Floating

The floating system docks and a metal the landmark, which not have any structural simply bent metal

Floating docks

system works with floating metal structure that supports which in this context does structural function, they are metal sheets.

Piles supported docks

The main ports have a structural system supported on concrete piles. These structure will receive the largest ferries and will work as an anchor for the floating docks.

Urban furniture elements

Isolated lights

In the extended surfaces of the public space is proposed a floor lighting system. This type of lighting provides a faint light and allows the continuity of the public space without physical interruptions.

Railing lights

The lighting furniture is designed like thin metal profiles that can be located along the paths in an isolated way but also can be integrated elements into the railing structures in the walkways, ports and stairs.

Bollards

These elements allow having continuous surfaces and differentiated areas. The elements are proposed to separate the heavy traffic areas and the areas of the public space, maintaining the surface continuity.

Bike-parking

The bike-parking element is the same bollard element but bigger. Some of the bollards and bikeparking elements also function like lighting elements, complementation the illumination of some areas.

Port benches

The urban benches of the docks were designed in such a way that has a tectonic and geometric continuity with the floor. Therefore the benches are elements which are an integral part of the design.

Floating islands

This system of floating docks are containers that allow vegetation float in the water.

Isolated benches

The benches located at surfaces like concrete or stone has the same principle of geometrical continuity, but unlike the benches of the port, seek to stand out from the surface by having a material change at the top.

Tree grate

The metal tree grills are located in the public space and have the same materiality as the frames, here olive trees are planted to keep it as a cultural and natural symbol of Gandria.