Description of the project Sanahuja & partners
The project, located in the coastal town of Alcossebre, is part of a Strategic Plan for Tourism Development. It features the partnership of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and its purpose is to promote tourism in the area through small urban, architectural and design activities.
The intervention is in the Paseo Vista Alegre, a privileged road that runs along the seafront promenade. Its goal is to eliminate the road traffic, turn it into a pedestrian street, and renovate the small tourist office.
It was decided to use ceramic products for this procedure, namely three very different types of ceramics of different thickness, formats, colours, finishes and applications:
A technical porcelain pavement was used for the Paseo Vista Alegre promenade. The multiple combinations of sizes and finishes provide infinite possibilities, thereby generating a new urban fabric on the pavement.
The project’s tourist office is inspired by the Mediterranean lattice, used in many of the seafront buildings from the 60s and 70s. A white glazed ceramic lattice was placed, forming three semi-transparent walls of different length around the building, to give it more presence. These lattice walls filter the light, the views and the breeze, improving thermal and lighting comfort and offering a new urban landscape.
The third ceramic element was used to create an airy façade, like a second skin enveloping the tourist office, to improve its living conditions, and solve the aesthetic problems posed by current enclosures. This façade also purifies the air by removing NOx.
