Master Plan Competition and promenade Matalascañas. Almonte, Huelva

First Prize Master Plan and promenade Matalascañas. Almonte, Huelva

Architects team winners: Laura Moruno, José Suárez, María Hormigo y Carlos García.

Date: May 2015

The draft Master Plan and promenade Matalascañas born to triple situation where the town center is: location in the natural surroundings of Doñana, coastal presence of a patrimonial set of defensive towers or beacons, as well as a major commitment to tourism. Our goal is to draw a comprehensive strategy necessarily reconcile this triple fact, using its potential in a respectful attitude to the environment.

We propose a pedestrian axis of public spaces connected by two bands parallel to the beach. The first is maintained at high level of the arena, while a system of ramps with gentle slopes up and down to form the second band, thus allowing continuity between urban space and sea.

An essential quality of the proposal is the possibility of temporarily develop in stages from a minimum emergency action on the boardwalk and access to the beach, to the incorporation of multi-core rhythm utility along the same.