Moreu-Mestre arquitectos . photos: © Jesús Granada
Through granite, the street is intended to become an element of continuity that appraise the uniqueness of the place, creating a homogeneous ambience between the horizontal and vertical planes that make up the public space.
To do this, we transpose the facades of granite masonry to the floor of the streets, working with pieces of different formats and with the irregular joint between them. The irregular joint between paved areas with granite, acquires, therefore, great importance in the project and its materiality and dimensions will vary according to the program assigned to each zone. This joint support uses, playground, vegetation, street furniture… and will comply with different materials as needed. The presence of retail and personal garages on site implies to propose a coexistence of different traffics instead of a proper pedestrianization. The street will be solved creating and unique level platform with pedestrian priority. Road traffic will not be limited using a different level platform but using an important expansion of the distant between the granite slabs. That will provide a different texture and materiality where the vehicles should not run.
