No more limits
Jordi Mas Morelló (ES)
Mónica Ruiz del Amor (ES)
Architects
Angel Marc Miguel Baños (ES)
Albert Chouciño Bazán (ES)
Students in architecture
Europan 10 Reus
runner-up
The Mediterranean city is compact by definition and, in this respect, has the typology of a sustainable city. Housing density is high and uses are mixed, but there is not much open space. The proposal emphasises that a compact city should not be a closed city. It suggests opening it up with a “large window to the city beyond ”, as modern architecture has done.
A corridor of open spaces is strategically located to oxygenate the new urban fabric and to connect it to the centre and its numerous amenities. The corridor is ecological with roads and two metres of vegetation on either side. Inside the old town, it becomes a traditional street.
This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Morphology
The morphological structure proposed by the project stands between city and nature. Playing on a sensitive rhythmic alternation between openness and closure, the fabric reflects ecological imperatives by taking care to leave “planted corridors” running through it.
Nature - Limit / Reconnection
The edge of the town stretches into a series of building filaments that physically mark the boundary through high density in contact with the farmland.