Urban seam.

© Roland Halbe

Architects: Zigzag Arquitectura · Office Profile

Location: Ayuntamiento de Santander, 39002 Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Author Architects: Bernardo Angelini, David Casino

Area: 1770.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Roland Halbe · Photographer Profile, Courtesy of Zigzag Arquitectura

Collaborators: Victor Sánchez, Manuel Casino, Bertha Malatesta

Technical Architect: Alberto López Díez

Structure Consultant: Mecanismo Ingeniería

Facilities Consultants: Urculo Ingenieros

Construction Company: Ascan

Budget: 167.780 ?
Courtesy of Zigzag Arquitectura

From the architect. Urban seam.The strategy proposed is one of an urban seamto be achieved by means of a series of terraced platforms and slopes forming stands, whose geometry solves the difference in levels of the site and the link between its limits: Reina Victoria Avenue in the north, Union Street in the west and the southern area in the lower part of the square itself. These platforms permit, by means of slight level changes, the resolution of the topographic gap and generate a new and continuous territory, sewn to the borders of the city. A new open and flexible space; a whole made up of different situations, levels, spatial and m...