Puerto de Santa Cruz
Embracing Enclosure Vision and Reality The scheme we propose expresses a new urbanistic vision for Santa Cruz. This vision is a new way to link the city of Santa Cruz with the sea and therefore a new way to connect the island of Tenerife with the world. The character of this vision has been the greatest challenge on our way to find the appropriate scheme for the new Link Quay. However, we have also been very clear from the beginning that no stone would ever be put on top of another if the technical, functional and economical requirements have not been taken care of with the same intensity. Our design strategy has therefore been very strictly based on all these requirements of reality as expressed in the client’s brief and also on the needs and the habits of the people of Santa Cruz. The Urbanistic Vision The island of Tenerife is the result and the physical expression of volcanic eruption.Even if erosion has flattened some areas on the island the steep shores and the abrupt transition from scarce land to the open Atlantic is a physical reality which has always determined the urbanisation on all sides and edges of the island.
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