PRELIMINARY PROJECT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE COASTAL AREA
-Altafulla
PRELIMINARY PROJECT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE COASTAL AREA
-Altafulla
There was a time when there were no promenades, the beach itself fulfilled this function without having to resort to the artificialization of the natural environment, as shown by some photographs by Francesc Català Roca.
Climate change emergencies are severely punishing coastal fronts. In this sense, it is necessary to understand well what its configuration is and which answer is the most appropriate at the moment, given of course that it is necessary to de-rigidify (rigid system) the coastline (natural system) proposing actions of de-construction and restoration of the natural environment.
In the work of Cedric Price, the application of systems anticipated a complex vision of the world. Altafulla’s preliminary project proposes a system that integrates different parameters to develop an adaptable strategy.
The preliminary project in Altafulla proposes to act in five different areas, giving personalized answers to each case. Reviewing the materiality of the streets, adapting the accesses to the beaches, naturalizing the Consulat Square, and giving continuity to the pedestrian promenade, proposing a bridge-staircase that connects the limit of the cliff with the seashore and the Roman archaeological ruins corresponding to the Roman village of Els Munts. The new structure sits on the ruins of an old military concrete bunker as an operation of recycling and preserving the memory of the place.
Client
Municipality of Altafulla
Architects
Nuria Casais, Ferran Grau (GrauCasais), Jesús Cardona (Nontropia)
Team
Isabella Pintani, Raul Montesinos
Collaborators
Francesc Xavier Roig (geography and geology), Isabel Vega (SUDS), Pere Fraga (botany)
Use type
Public space
Builded surface
8.386,40 m2
Photography
Jesús Cardona, Ferran Grau
Situation
Altafulla - Tarragona
Year
2021
Budget
1.898.030 €
APRIL - 2022
Lecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de La Salle (ETSALS) in Barcelona.
MAY - 05.2020
Lecture by Ferran Grau: Sports Architecture. Projectes VI Tarda. Etsab
APRIL - 04.2020
Cosmetics Techniques, Quaderns 272, ready for printing
MARCH - 05.2020
Ferran Grau collaborates in the catalogue of the exhibition “Perdurar” - COAC, with the article “no todo estaba por hacer en Burkina”.
FEBRUARY - 20.2020
Presentation of the AT architectural journal (n. 22) by its directors Nuria Casais and Ferran Grau. “Nature and city” seeks to underline the relevance of the debate around the urban development in the natural environment and viceversa.
FEBRUARY - 18.2020
ATRIA Healthcare Home awarded with the Architecture Baumit Prize 2019.
JANUARY - 16. 2020
The article “Puertas, ventanas, muros y otros elementos: reflexiones sobre categorías posmodernas contemporáneas” written by Nuria Casais and Ferran Grau pubished in LIMAQ journal (n.5), edited by Universidad de Lima.
JANUARY - 14.2020
Ferran Grau participates in the debate “UNFINISHED: Ideas, images and projects of the Spanish Pavilion at the XV Biennale di Architettura di Venecia” (Cooperativa d’arquitectes Jordi Capell, Barcelona).
DECEMBER - 10.2019
“Habitat store”, project selected for the Catalan Architecture Archives that is fostered by COAC. www.arquitecturacatalana.cat
SEPTEMBER - 30.2019
2nd Prize. Competition for the Refurbishment of the Sport Facility in La Clota, Barcelona.
SEPTEMBER - 03.2019
The exhibition XI Bienal Alejandro de la Sota opening, with the Residencia ATRIA (awarded project), L’Hospitalet de l’Infant (Tarragona).
APRIL - 26.2019
Residencia ATRIA awarded at XI Biennal Alejandro de la Sota.
APRIL - 04.2019
The exhibition of the XIV Spanish Biennial of Archiecture and Urbanism “Más habitar, más humanizar” includes the Residencia ATRIA, and it opens at Convento de Santa María de los Reyes, Sevilla.
MARCH – 10.2019
The exhibition “Arquitectures en el paisatge. 2000-2017” in the COAC (Vic) includes the project “Habitat Store”. Open till April 8th.
MARCH –06.2019
“ATRIA Home” published in IoARCH magazine (number 80).
JANUARY – 22.2019
Opening of the exhibition XIV Bienal Espanyola d’Arquitectura i Urbanismo “Más habitar, más humanizar” at La Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios a Madrid. The exhibition includes the project “ATRIA Home” that was finalist at the XIV BEAU.
NOVEMBER – 19.2018
Nuria Casais will participate as jury member in the Trabajos Final de Màster presentation, Màster “Diseño de espacios urbanos, arquitectura y movilidad.»
OCTOBER - 18.2018
Opening of the exhibition “Import WB Export Bcn Re-activate the city”. Ferran Grau contributes in the catalogue with the essay “Una arquitectura activa”(An active architecture). The exhibition is part of Cities Connection Projects and is edited by DPR Barcelona.
SEPTEMBER – 19.2018
Ferran Grau and Nuria Casais will be at EURAU 18 symposium, in Alicante, presenting “TILIBFOP. A research on the European architectural identity” and “NAC: A new regional estructure” respectively.
AUGUST – 01.2018
Nuria Casais appointed as Teaching Assistant at Arkitektskolen Aarhus in Denmark.
JULY – 19.2018
ATRIA Home project is shortlisted in the XIV Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo “Más habitar, más humanizar”. The opening of the XIV BEAU exhibition will take place in Santander (Spain).
JUNE – 14.2018
“Home where is home?”, Nuria Casais and Ferran Grau will lecture at Instituto Cervantes in Sidney.
FEBRUARY – 01.2018
Ferran Grau, Nuria Casais y Rafa Mateo, selected to direct the number 273 of Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme, published by COAC and Polígrafa editorial.
NOVEMBER – 01.2017
Nuria Casais is appointed to teach at ESDesign – Escuela Superior de Diseño de Barcelona in the Master “Diseño de espacios urbanos, arquitectura y movilidad”.
OCTOBER - 18.2017
Ferran Grau will lecture in “Puig I Cadafalch, arquitecte de Catalunya” presenting “Josep Puig I Cadafalch, una actitud arquitectònica vigent”.
SEPTEMBER - 29.2017
GRAUCASAIS awarded with the second prize in the open competition for the LLAR RESIDÈNCIA Casa Bloc, Barcelona.
MAY – 26.2016
The Habitat store project, shortlisted in the «Unfinished,” Pabellón Español for the Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia. Catalogue edited by the Fundación Arquia and Ministerio de Fomento, 2016.