The city has denied itself to the sea and the bay. The port is not an extension of the city toward the sea but a border for it. The growth has been terrestrial; it has grown like an interior city although it lacks earth and has an excess of water and air. We bet for the maritime vocation of the city. The remodelling of the port should not only be considered like a mutation, but like a natural, biological enlargement of the bay through the sea, going across its air, breathing it.
The set of cities around the bay will potentially increase its expectations thanks to that union, in contrast to the current disperse and fragmentary situtation that dilutes those cities, or tries to keep them up artificially with the insertion of houses, applied like the grafts of an android.
Ideas.-
- Opening of the port to the city without making it disappear.
- Recovery of the historical meaning of the city.
- Means of transport. Cable car of the bay. Circular of the bay. Transport exchanger of the bay.
The new leisure and culture activities. The seasonal isle.
It will be a large flat extension anchored in the middle of the bay during the summer and will be connected to the cable car. Pleasure boats and the ferry could have access to it. It will be built in the shipyard of "la cabezuela" by means of a floating boxes system. The islands enable the installation of buildings, auditoriums, vegetation, docks, artificial beaches, marine research centres, etc.
During the summer, the isle vill be divided placing it in the different ports creating new complementary uses. We reproduce the historic process of colonization of the islands that make up the peninsula of Cadiz.
- The renewal of the port in Cadiz.
- Temporary lodgings.
- Systematisation of the grille. Bike lane.
- Recovery of the dock city.
CREDITS
Date Project.- Summer, 2002.
Architects:- José Juan Barba.
Team Students/architects.- Carmen Alonso, José de Coca, Ángel Luis Fernández, Virginia Hernández, Jorge Malagón and Carlos Moreno.
Site: Cadiz Bahia. Cadiz. Spain.
Developer.- Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Cádiz. Ayto. de Cádiz.
Publishing:
AA.VV. "Entorno al Vacío. Padova - Cádiz". Ed. Arquitectos de Cádiz. Sevilla, 2003.
