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Waterfront promenade
Alcossebre, Castellon, Spain
1994-2004
The town of Alcossebre is on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. In the winter, it is practically a ghost town; in the spring and summer, like most places along the Spanish Mediterranean coast, it gets flooded with tourism. When we were commissioned to design a series of waterfront promenades tying together Alcossebre’s coast line and its different beaches I believed that it would not be appropriate to design so called hard surface-urban promenades that would, during the off season, increase the ghost appearance of a man made environment meant to be full more so than empty. This thought became the perfect alibi to design these promenades from a naturalistic and more environmentally self-sustainable approach. From the moment we took these decision, strongly backed by the major, the project had as much to do with restoring the dunes ecosystem as it did with creating a self-sustainable oasis-garden along the way. I could not think of a better environment for the people to enjoy the borderline between the land and the sea than by meandering along paths that contemplate a replenished nature. In the winter, there will be no ghosts.
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