Sancti Petri Peninsula. Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), Spain

Fishing Forest

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Fishing Forest. The beginnings of Bakpak

The town of Sancti Petri owes its importance to its tuna fishing past and its people of the sea. The intervention aims to restore meaning to the peninsula by reinterpreting the architectural and spatial values of the past, which have been lost today. The architecture of the industrial, the white warehouses, the sloping roofs, the sequenced gables repeated in space inspire the new design. This type of architecture was based on growth through the addition of very basic typological modules, thus creating blocks. This way of understanding planning as the sum of unitary pieces is the theoretical and conceptual basis of our proposal.

This "new town" is divided into 13 compact clusters of themed uses. These groups relate to their surroundings through their open perimeter, and to themselves thanks to their "streets and squares". Their scale is that of a village, more complex and sheltered from the east and west winds. From the outside, its massive white façades create a familiar environment. On the inside, the buildings are wrapped in vertical lattices of tanalised pine wood, creating a historical and cultural relationship with the tradition of shipwrights and the construction of wooden boats. As a connecting element between all the pieces, and as a new value of the peninsula, we introduce a new "forest" of replanted pines (pinus pinea) that runs along the peninsula from south to north generating a new landscape.

We start from a module, a minimum unit of use of 78 square metres which, combined together, forms the sets of our proposal. The metallic structure of this module and its proportions make it prefabricated and can be seriable so that the cost of its execution will be significantly lower than that of any conventional construction. Two modules are designed for the creation of the complexes, a generic one (gable roof) and a "border" one that builds the perimeter of the complexes.

Project

Fishing Forest

Location

Sancti Petri Peninsula. Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz), Spain

Customer

Chiclana City Council

State

Competition. 1st Prize

Surface

25.000 m2 for public use + 75.000 m2 public space

A contemporary reinterpretation of the industrial architecture of the old tuna settlement.

White façades and wooden lattices that dialogue with the local maritime memory.

The intervention is organised into 13 compact clusters of themed uses, connected by a network of streets and squares that reproduce the scale and complexity of a village. On the outside, the white façades provide visual continuity with the landscape; on the inside, the pinewood lattices recall the tradition of the riverside carpenters.

Compact complexes connected by streets and squares on a human scale.

The project recovers the essence of the historic tuna fishing village of Sancti Petri by reinterpreting its original industrial architecture. The white halls, sloping roofs and repeated gables serve as the starting point for a new approach that reconstructs the lost character of the peninsula.

The proposal is based on a minimum module of 78 m² whose metallic structure allows for a prefabricated, flexible and economical construction system. The addition of these modules - in a generic or edge version - generates an urban fabric that combines identity, efficiency and adaptation to the environment.