Natural ecosystems and infrastructures: Challenges and opportunities in T2

The project is about the creation of a parking building with hostel services, footbridge, car rental area and a big green system that structures the proposal. The aim of the project is solving the landscape scars.

The project is an urban and infrastructure conditioning. It consists in the creation of the following elements: 6-floor building for parking and a hostel area, the relocation of a large area for the development of car rental and a large elevated path of almost 1 km length that unites the different equipments of the T2. One of the musts was that the parking area and the hostel had been located in the same building. To carry out this set of constructions, it is necessary to understand the territorial area in which it is located, because the airport is a large concrete area in the middle of the Delta del Llobregat, a place with a very environmental and ecological importance. To solve the whole proposal globally, I decided to use the native vegetation of the area as a structuring element. The project that I propose is a non-waterproofing the ground that, along with the recovery of the native flora and the plantation of new green zones, will serve like essential element of leisure of the different users.The parking building is a set of large concrete slabs, which locates the hostel and parking and makes the terminal's understanding clearer; currently is a mixture of elements without unity. The parking lot is very compact although it's facades are opened, in this way it is possible to save on ventilation facilities and the building is participates in the environment. On the other hand, the hostel area is U-shaped and takes advantage of a large inner courtyard, benefiting from the cross-ventilation and evaporative refrigeration of the vegetation. Here are the different housing units that play a very important role in the change of scale. Although the building has two very different uses with uneven frames and formalization, the large continuous railing allows the whole building to be understood as a unique and large building.