Service buildings at city borders. Santa Pola bus station
09/06/2016.
by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. [Santa Pola, Alicante] Spain
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
metalocus, CLAUDIA CENDOYA
A plot that stands between the city center and the industrial outskirts of Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain) is employed both as a service element and as a landmark. The project is organized in two volumes, being the main and most visible of them a bus station. The other building is meant to be a piece of municipal services with a tertiary body in the back destined to commercial activities.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Site plan. Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo.
Elevations. Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo.
Elevations. Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
Santa Pola bus station by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo. Image © Filippo Poli.
The bus station designed by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo is located at the most visible point of the plot. The building is configured as a large plane flying over the halts that serves as a cover for the waiting passengers. A drilling in the deck houses a large indoor garden that serves as a light source and reference point.
Description of the project by Manuel Lillo and Emilio Vicedo
This Project is set as an urban strategy to solve the public uses plot existing in the south access to Santa Pola town, conforming a kind of ‘door to the city’. The roads linking Santa Pola and Elche towns are running through an area exclusively shaped with industrial buildings, just at the very front of the public plot and the entrance to the city itself. So, this Project had to realise its nature as a landmark, and was settled as an organic and uniform ensemble of building pieces and spaces.
Main use comprehends the new Bus Station, placed in the most prominent point of the plot, next to the roundabout, and directly visible from all points. Likewise, a wide green area is placed next to the road, to emphasise its public role.
Formally, the main station building is composed as a floating huge deck, which must provide shadow and protection to the waiting platforms, settled under this deck together with the ticket office ant services, and an oil station and shop in its back side. The main deck has a void in the central area to provide a kind of garden, whose purpose is to provide light, reference point and to serve as a boundary between different uses and spaced.
There is a second volume with a similar composition, using metallic claddings as the main material to conform façades. This volume is laid down twisting its lines and so allowing public spaces and gardens to appear in first place. This second piece is used to provide space for commercial and city servies.
Photography by Filippo Poli.
More information
Architects
Manuel Lillo, Emilio Vicedo
Collaborator
Luis Carreira (architect)
Location
Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain
Date
2014
Emilio VICEDO
Emilio Vicedo Ortiz (Alicante, 1963) is an architect specialized in Urban Planning from the School of Architecture at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1989 and Master in Integrated Project Management Construction from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2012. Vicedo is also a Property Analyst is from the European Institute of Real Estate Analysis, 2012 and specialist in Pathology and Intervention in the Built Heritage, University of Alicante, 1994.
Since 1993 Vicedo leads his own professional office, carrying out projects in the field of building and town planning of all kinds, so sole and part of multidisciplinary teams. Highlight is due in his collaborations with engineering companies in the fields of urbanization, transportation, industrial and marine works.
Vicedo has been a member of the Provincial Jury of Expropriation, by representing the Official School of Architects of Alicante.
Vicedo collaborated with D. Miguel Fisac Serna in the Project of a Church in Murcia. Associate Professor of Architectural Forms I Analysis in San Pablo CEU Foundation, Madrid. Course 1988-89.
Since 1993 Vicedo leads his own professional office, carrying out projects in the field of building and town planning of all kinds, so sole and part of multidisciplinary teams. Highlight is due in his collaborations with engineering companies in the fields of urbanization, transportation, industrial and marine works.
Vicedo has been a member of the Provincial Jury of Expropriation, by representing the Official School of Architects of Alicante.
Vicedo collaborated with D. Miguel Fisac Serna in the Project of a Church in Murcia. Associate Professor of Architectural Forms I Analysis in San Pablo CEU Foundation, Madrid. Course 1988-89.
Manuel LILLO NAVARRO
Manuel Lillo Navarro is Doctor Architect by ETSA Valencia. Since 1997, projects of architecture, urbanism, landscape and urban furniture at his own studio in Alicante. Featured projects: Portal del Clot (Xábia), New South Access (Alicante), Miguel Hernández School (Orihuela), Culture House Hondón de las Nieves (Alicante), Offices and Industrial Buildings Blasco, S.L. (Alicante), Auditorium of Rafelbunyol (Valencia), Paseo del Arenal (Xábia), Auditorium of Sant Vicent del Raspeig (unbuilt), Tram Stops for stations - Line 4 (Alicante)
Since 2001, professor of projects at the School of Architecture of Valencia.
Since 2001, professor of projects at the School of Architecture of Valencia.
