Panarchy Cycles 3P4O - Ciclos de Panarquía

In this project, the jury positively valued the theoretical structuring of the transformation process of this large site. The project takes as a starting point a site inherited from previous transformation cycles, linked to the productive economy that degraded its environmental qualities.

It proposes a detailed systemic analysis of the processes underway and proposes to initiate a new transformation cycle that advocates for «co-evolution between nature and culture, a place where regeneration is not a final state, but a continuous and living process».

This project vindicates time as one of the key factors in its approach. It is presented in the form of a strategic action plan in three stages: tactical, infrastructural and adaptive. Its states accompany the site's transformation process. These different stages of development are associated and combined with actions on: the terrain, habitats, the program and continuities, which function iteratively.The actions prior to implementation aim to summarily prepare the site (topographic micromodeling, water management, Posidonia compost, etc.), initiating its reconquest through pioneer environments and activating its uses.

The second actions reinforce the created environments and cause deeper transformations, with very interesting proposals such as, for example, the demolition of the waterfront piers to restore free circulation of sediments or the elimination of the western roundabout and the pedestrianization of the link between land and sea. The third actions appropriate the environments that have returned to «equilibrium» over time to maintain and develop uses.