The project of treatment system that has been awarded recently with the MIPIM Award 2013, presented with an absolute scenic view and a strong commitment to landscape renovation, the Alt Maresme Nord surprising wastewater treatment plant amazed us as precursor to a future landscape restoration. Completed its construction in 2012 the architecture studio BCQ Barcelona, understand their infrastructure as a major "territorial filter" in an facility with an industrial image.

Memory of project

A wastewater treatment plant is a big territorial “filter" which roughly purifies water after urban use before returning it to the sea.

So we imagined that this image of "filter" could be the image of the treatment plant. A filter between spaces, a light filter, a filter between the landscape and an industrial image installation ...

The Alt Maresme Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) project includes sewage sanitation system consisting of 3 different facilities and strategically located in the territory, the Pump Station (PS) at the mouth of the stream of Pineda, the Pretreatment (PT) in front the beach near a small cemetery, and the treatment of sludge and waters line, located in the former Montpalau’s quarry (WWTP).
The Pumping station is conceived as a small-scale building and industrial-looking as it is coated all over it with a metal deployée.

The part built on the coast, the Pretreatment station, buries in the ground to assimilate in height partly to the nearby cemetery. The white finish and lack of openings to the outside makes the building look like an extension of the cemetery fence.

In contrast to the two smaller facilities, PS and PT, which respond directly to their urban environment, the WWTP plant, of sludge treatment, is located within the quarry and is conceived as an scenographic exercise with a single facade inserted in the landscape. The project seeks to use the construction of the WWTP to improve substantially the image of the old Montpalau quarry currently unused. The landscape component of the intervention must be an improvement in the perception of the forest and agricultural landscape of its surroundings. The search for the landscape quality of the new intervention does not arise from cosmetics, but from the generation of new premises for the landscape restoration of an old quarry and the very concept of the new facility.

The new environmental facility is organized by parallel strips separated by plant spaces in continuity with the forest. A large metal volume will house the visitor’s center and staff facilities. A large facade formed by metal filters frames the main volume and generates the only image we have of it from outside.

Text.- BCQ arquitecture Barcelona.

 

CREDITS.-

Architects.- BCQ arquitectura Barcelona. Toni Casamor, David Baena, Manel Peribáñez, Maria Taltavull.
Project team.- Catarina Crespo, Vasco Mourão, Mika Iitomi, Raúl Castaño, Marko Milojcic, Jon Sauto, Pep Tornabell.
Technical team.- Quantity Surveyor.- Maurici Díaz. Structural Engineering.- Jordi Granada, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering.- SINAGRO ENGINYERIA. Civil Engineering.- DOPEC / DEGRÉMONT SUEZ ESPAÑA.
Project Management.- INYPSA. Renders.- Saida Dalmau, Vicentiu Sopterean. Maqueta.- MAQUETAS Proyectos y Diseños SL.
Promoter.- AGÈNCIA CATALANA DE L’AIGUA-ACA. GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA.
Builder.- COPISA.
Area built- 10.960

Area urbanized.- 26.627
Cost.- 12.778.625 €.
Construction.- July 2009-November 2012. Built Stage 1.

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BCQ arquitectura Barcelona, con 20 años de experiencia profesional, David Baena y Toni Casamor desarrollan proyectos de arquitectura, paisajismo y diseño urbano a todas las escalas y dimensiones en su estudio BCQ arquitectura de Barcelona como resultado de la combinación de aspectos como la calidad del diseño, la funcionalidad y viabilidad técnica en el diseño creativo.

Ya se trate de un proyecto a escala urbana, una intervención en el paisaje o la construcción de edificios, siempre buscan la mejor respuesta posible para mejorar la construcción, el paisaje y el entorno social desde la sostenibilidad.

En 2006 Manel Peribáñez y Taltavull María se unieron como colaboradores y socios. Desde entonces, han combinado sus trabajos de diseño y construcción de proyectos con la docencia en las principales escuelas de arquitectura, tanto en Cataluña como en el extranjero, tales como la Escuela de Arquitectura de Zurich (ETH) y la Facultad de Arquitectura de Alghero, Cerdeña. Los proyectos BCQ han sido ampliamente publicados y presentados en las conferencias tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. En 2008 se publicó la monografía Reflexiones | Reflexiones y las obras recientes se han publicado en el número especial de TC CUADERNOS n º 105 BCQ BAENA CASAMOR en 2012.

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Published on: April 9, 2013
Cite: "Wastewater treatment plant. Alt Maresme Nord" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/wastewater-treatment-plant-alt-maresme-nord> ISSN 1139-6415
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