Trinitat Park in Barcelona
A park in the middle of the infrastructures that generates its own landscape, prolonging the public space of the city and spreading the vegetation along the infrastructures.
Pedestrian walkway in Igualada
The walkway solves a forgotten corner of the city creating a new access to the Vallbona park and at the same time improving connectivity within the neighborhood.
Authors
Batlleiroig Arquitectura. Enric Batlle Durany, Joan Roig i Duran – Architect
Team
Mario Súñer Díaz, Simone Cicu – Architect / Dolors Feu – Agricultural engineer and landscape architect / Yago Cavaller Galí – Agricultural engineer and environmentalist
Collaborators
STATIC Ingeniería – Structural engineering
Promoter
Ajuntament d’Igualada
Location
Construction company
Constructora Calaf
Project status
Built
Start date
2014
Finish date
2016
Built area
670 m2
Adapted pedestrian walkway in Igualada
The gateway has two squares located in both ends, complementing the overall planning. Despite its small size, this treatment seeks to have an impact on multiple scales sharing a common goal: to invigorate Vallbona Park, a forgotten and degraded place within the city.
The new walkway transforms an unresolved corner of the city into a new gateway to Vallbona Park. Its elevated position benefits from an excellent condition as a lookout over the city and the region.
It connects Vallbona Park and Station Park. It also provides the Siete Caminos neighbourhood residents with a continuous path throughout green areas from their homes to the urban core.
During these last years, the City Council of Igualada is promoting diverse actions aiming to consolidate a footpaths system and cycling ways named the Green Ring. The new route will improve the connectivity within this routes system, increasing even more the flow of people in the Vallbona Park.
