Multimodal Hub Nice Grand Arénas, French Urban Design, Landscape Architecture Images
Multimodal Hub Nice Grand Arénas
Urban Landscape Design in Southern France design by mateo arquitectura
19 Dec 2018
Multimodal Hub in Nice
Design: mateo arquitectura
Location: Nice, France
Multimodal Hub in Nice
Development is currently starting of the central axis of the new multimodal hub, which will channel all the flows of traffic meeting here, creating a new centrality of this site.
The traffic flows are the new tram system, buses, bicycles and pedestrians. Different movements with different needs.
The following design issues are addressed here:
1. Unification of the horizontal texture that forms all the paving. All the flows that cross the place are paved with natural or artificial stone. These textures are edged with sturdy blocks of light-coloured sandstone that contain the surfaces and create small differences in levels between them for safety reasons.
The resulting paving is a continuous figure of stone, bound by the lines that form the kerbs and some differences in size and quality of certain parts according to their conditions of use. The space between the tram rails is occupied by very rough cobblestone (to deter pedestrians), the sidewalks are smooth granite pavers, and the bus and cycle lanes comprise self-supporting high strength concrete blocks.
Together, they form a continuous, regular but varied tapestry.
2. Introduction of vegetation onto this horizontal mineral base. Large trees along the pavements, a green central reservation, climbing plants on the side walls, a little park at the furthest point …
Now recently planted, all of this vegetation will come to form a tapestry that protects human movements, in a dialectical relation with the mineral base on which it rests.
Beneath the paving stones lies the sea…
In the main axis of the new multimodal hub in the French city of Nice, for the first time in Europe, a large expanse of urban cool paving has been created.
It corresponds to the areas of most intense pedestrian presence (bus stops, pavements, etc.) and represents an attempt to improve the thermal conditions of urban space in a hot climate such as that of Nice.
It consists of an underground irrigation system controlled by exterior sensors that cool special breathable pavers, manufactured experimentally using mollusc shells.
Josep Lluís Mateo
Multimodal Hub, Nice Grand Arénas – Building Information
Author: Josep Lluís Mateo – Mateo Arquitectura
Competition: 2011 (First prize, invited competition)
Project: 2015
Construction: 2018
Location: Grand Arénas sector, Nice (France)
Client: Établissement Public d’Aménagement de la Plaine du Var
Surface: 21,200 sqm
Team
Project leader: Ignasi Rincón
Site management: Xavier Monclús
External Collaborators
Landscaping: Atelier Villes et Paysages
Engineering: Egis
Sustainable consulting and innovation: Veolia-2EI
Photograph: Aldo Amoretti and Adrià Goula
Multimodal Hub in Nice Grand Arénas images / information received 191218
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