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Offener Wettbewerb | 02/2012

Concurso público de concepção (ideias) para a requalificação e reordenamento da praia e frente de mar da Figueira da Foz e Buarcos / Re-qualification and Redevelopment of the Beach and Seafront of Figueira da Foz and Buarcos

General Plan

General Plan

1. Preis

RVDM arquitectos

Architektur

Erläuterungstext

Architectural Competition for the
Reclassification and Reorganization of the Beach and Ocean Front
Figueira da Foz – Buarcos, Portugal

Winner
Short Memory Text

Landscape and Memory
Reunion and Future

"They gave us memory to have roses in winter."

The proposal takes advantage of the extensive beach offered by the wind and the sea using it to revive the prestige and excitement of Figueira da Foz proposing a Atlantic Park City ready to receive art, culture, sport and leisure. This great collective equipment, with more than two kilometers in length, will rebalance the relationship of the city with the beach and will be an open invitation to have "roses all year round."

Introduction
The intervention area is essentially a nature one, a border between the city and the sea. It's boundary place, a place of reunion of the city with the landscape. It can be therefore a mixed space, multiple and polyvalent. The challenge is how to get it all, and above all doing that while drawing "natural landscape". And, simultaneously, to obtain an attractive and welcoming space that can protect the Avenue of the prevailing winds.

Nature, Proximity and Energy
The project for consists in a concept which can be summarized in four main goals:
- Creation of a dune system that allows fixing of autochthonous plant species defining a vegetal filter device, creating a transitional space, and protection one between the city and the beach.
- Construction of a new pedestrian and car access system to the beach while allowing decompression of the avenue and the creation of wind barriers with fixing vegetation, and further strengthening of the car parking supply, with the construction of a semi-underground park for 445 cars in southern section of the avenue and some more in the new "Marginal Sea." along the new sand dunes.
- Introduction of a set of new buildings with various programs, operating as triggers of demand from visitors.
- Use of building and energy techniques to ensure that both production and conservation of energy will prevail. All equipment and beach facilities as well as the walkways will take advantage of solar and wind energy, characterizing this new area of ​​the city as a "Energetic HUB".

Program Organization
The southern part of the intervention aims to set more urban programs, which complement the central city: an Atlantic Pool; a multifunctional space, called the Ring of Arts and a new Marina. In this zone the avenue will have a new profile, with a double track and a fifteen meters wide sidewalk. This new profile of the Avenue will allow the construction of a Car Parking semi-buried using the slope to the beach.
The Atlantic Pool will be the tail-end of the side-walk, posing as a stony "bubble". It builds on the lower quota offering a 25 meters competition tank and another one for diving. The program is supplemented with a SPA who turns itself to the Marina. Outside there will be a saltwater pool.
The Ring of Arts will be the meeting place par excellence. It will be prepared to receive music shows, seasonal fairs, and sports events such as beach volleyball or beach football or other cultural and recreational activities. Being summer-use equipment, it is prepared for use in the most unfavorable weather conditions. It may be closed completely with canvas screens that will surround its periphery and coverage.
The Atlantic Marina approaches the city to the water plan, and repositions the Santa Catarina Fort by the sea. The surrounding space will be built to support a commercial building and an outdoor amphitheater that will connect this space to Bairro Novo neighbor, on top of the Avenue. This amendment will require the relocation of the Tennis Club to new premises next to the River Mondego. Completing this intervention is expected to install a metal pedestrian bridge connecting the Casino Street to this new sports and recreational space around the new marina.
The Car Parking is complemented at its lower elevation, with support spaces to the beach - restaurants and bars. These programs promote the use of the urban park at night, providing the necessary tranquility in neighborhoods above. In this floor there will also be changing rooms and storage spaces for the maintenance of the park. The binding quota is provided by elevators and stairs covered. Throughout the park there will be bars and restaurants, positioning both along the existing avenue and the new street along the dunes. This location allows for differentiation and identification of several footpaths to the beach. Throughout the park there will be facilities for children and youths, such as a children playground and a park for young people, as well as a Skate Park.
The Buarcos garden, in the northern part of the intervention, will result of the rearrangement of the road system, eliminating various roundabouts, to create a single one that will distribute all the traffic. This option frees up space, allowing the creation of a garden in the transition to the beach. Along this garden it will be built restaurants and bars, reorganizing the area and offering a more direct relationship between the garden and the beach.


Estimated total costs
102.437.204,00 €

8.508.116,00 € - Public infrastructure
76.822.650,00 € - Concessions (Public-Private Partnerships)
17.106.438,00 € - Privates
Conceptual Diagram

Conceptual Diagram

Marina Section

Marina Section

Marina and Atlantic Pool Section

Marina and Atlantic Pool Section

Avenue Section

Avenue Section

Overall Image

Overall Image

View towards the Marina

View towards the Marina

View from the Marina

View from the Marina

View towards the Atlantic Park

View towards the Atlantic Park

View towards the Buarcos Park

View towards the Buarcos Park

View towards the Buarcos Beach and Park

View towards the Buarcos Beach and Park