Project description
The project focused on the rehabilitation of the pedestrian zone surrounding the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), aiming to give it the suitable features of leisure and promenade area.
The intention behind the proposal was to renew an existing circuit and adapt it to the use that the citizens effectively gave it, not only rehabilitating it functionally but also providing a new formal and aesthetic characterisation.
In order to guarantee safety conditions and adapt the route to the different attributes of the terrain and pre-existing structures, a number of typical profiles were differentiated, determining the materials, systems and characteristics of each road length.
The promenade was developed as two independent lanes of different characteristics separated by a green corridor throughout most of its extension. The first, exclusively pedestrian, featured a pavement of dark granite cubic blocks. The pavement of the second, the bicycle path, consisted of coloured epoxy bitumen.
Beside the infrastructures destined for circulation, central elements of the proposal, the urban equipment and landscaping was of particular importance in defining the image of the circuit. The proposed street lighting equipments and metallic fences which accompany the route were especially notable. Both were specifically designed for this project.
A1V2’s approach materialised in a renovated and dynamic image for the roads surrounding the IPB, matching the recently built infrastructures, conferring unity and uniformity to the whole.