Architectural Design Archive
Making accessible topographies
Making accessible topographies outlines an intervention in the obsolete port spaces of Pasajes, where industrial activity has gone into decline. The proposal reorders and modernizes these spaces, adapting them for citizenship while allowing the port to open new economic sectors. The public stratum begins to invade part of the port, recovering a fragment of the industrial zone that has functioned as a barrier between the city and the sea for years in the southern part of Pasajes, so that urban life flows into this new area.

The building is considered as a semi-buried space on which a large public space is located. A green landscape, with paths, ramps, and cozy corners, where new views of the city are opened and which ends up sinking into the sea, achieving an interesting relationship and continuity with the landscape. Under this space there is a dotational building that awakens the economy of the port: a center destined to tourism in Pasajes, with an accessible program for tourists and also citizens. This center also has a terminal for small cruises and a dock for local ferries and sport boats.

Thanks to exterior constructive decisions, an aspect of continuity with the environment is achieved. The platform itself creates curves and ascends creating the topography that constitutes the building, forming a public island in the industrial sea of Pasajes.