Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà

Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay

PROMENADE EN LES COVES DE VINROMÀ

Bona fide taller

ARCHITECTS
Bona fide taller

CLIENTS
Ayuntamiento de Les Coves de Vinromà

LEAD ARCHITECT
Alejandro Martínez del Río

DESIGN TEAM
Alejandro Martínez del Río

MANUFACTURERS
LifecerSuds

AREA
5382 ft²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Les Coves De Vinromà, Spain

CATEGORY
Public Space

Text description provided by architect.

Located on the edge of a small town by the river valley, the pathway is a landscape intervention on the side of a road, a ceramic carpet that has been unrolled following the line of the existing stone wall that holds the terrain.

It creases and folds as the trees and roads cross its way, thus dragging stones of concrete in those backwaters, where one can sit. 

Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay

The surfaces of these slabs polished as if they were exposed to the sanding of use. Other elements such as bollards lead the flow.

It descends and drains into a small plaza. Unlike the pathway, this space is of urban, domestic attributes.

An outdoor room for meeting and rest. A fountain holds the center, expelling its water through an open draixn to the natural terrain below.

Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay

From its ledge of rusted mesh and stone, the river can be seen, with all its white marbles, and the abandoned barns at the other side of the valley.

The dry-stone wall that holds the court follows a footpath that goes down to the old wheel, coming from the high levels of the town above.

Its stepped slope is solved with river stones in between salvaged bush-hammered masonry -as found in the nearby streets uphill-, combined with stairs in clay tiling, all under the shade of the pines.

Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay

Materiality is key, particularly in such a delicate environment. Pavement is built using blocks of recycled low-value ceramic stock, cut and reassembled, resulting in a warm red pinstripe.

Along with stonework, stone paving of different sorts, and rusted steel, the intervention blends in the landscape.

The project developed by Bona fide taller in the urban edge of the small town of Les Coves de Vinromà, in Castellón (Spain), is the result of a competition promoted by the ceramic industry of the region.

Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay


Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
© Oleh Kardash Horlay


Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Promenade stretch 01

Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Promenade stretch 02


Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Plaza - Footpath elevation
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Plaza - Construction drawing


Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Sketch - Floor composition 01
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Sketch - Floor composition 02


Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
General plan
Promenade en Les Coves de Vinromà
Plaza and fountain