WEAVING LIMITS

The keys of the project:

- The CLIFF: a natural separation LIMIT of two worlds: a vegetal sea of La Breña natural reserve and a marine ocean of Barbate Atlantic waters.

- The PURPOSE: The question was how to stand on a limit with the purpose of trying to JOIN and weave the space between both worlds. From this arises the idea of screen walls representing both worlds but reversing their direction, making them vertical to sustain an atmosphere of activities, connections, routes and habitats, as an image of the own stratified cliff. This is how PERMEABLE WALLS are configured, supporting a world of walkways and habitable capsules.

- The REFUGEE: The other weight of the balance is the definition of people as REFUGEES. Who is the shelter tower for? To the two fundamental pillars of Barbate's life: TRADITIONAL FISHING ACTIVITY and FOREST ACTIVITY linked to their natural park. This is how a world of capsules + habitats is configured in the intermediate zone of the tower, supporting it with a centre of interpretation and recovery of the traditional fishing business, and crowning it with an avian and forestry interpretation and research centre.

- SELF-SUSTAINABILITY: In addition, the premise of a SELF-SUSTAINABLE TOWER is linked to a process of solar and tidal energy recovery and desalination of sea water to be used in the interpretation centre.
In summary: a dynamic process that closes a circuit by joining the two lives of Barbate.

WEAVING LIMITS, LIVING THE CLIFF.