REPORT

The new bus terminal for Huelva was to be located on a site in the form of a 33º sector with a radius length of 200 meters. The shape of the building stems directly from the traffic flows in the terminal, and the ground plan meets a complex set of varied requirements.

On the ground floor, the passenger services are located around the main concourse, while the transport companies have their offices on the first floor, in an area also containing the staff rest rooms and changing rooms. The passenger concourse is formally linked with the platform zone, around which the buses turn, in order not to interrupt pedestrian traffic flows. The bus platforms have beeen designed around a large circular courtyard juxtaposing the garden and the buses. The result is one of the most outstandingly attractive parts of the plan.

However, an attempt has been made to reestablish the unity of the space by covering it all with a single, enormous flat roof, 7.65 yards/7 meters above the floor, bringing together the concourse and the bus shelters and avoiding the split between the two that tends to exist in such buildings.

The only buildings it does not cover are the single-storey shops, the service station, and the additional bus shelters on the outer corners. The ancillary nature of these buildings is futher emphasized by assimilating them into the wallls enclosing the site.

Publication´s title: Central bus station, HuelvaTypology: Transport, Commercial, Mixed usesClient: Andalusian Autonomous GovernmentSurface: 4.739 m²Year: 1990-1994Status: BuiltBudget: 7.108.290 €

SummarySummary

Huelva. Spain

Central bus station

General Exterior Views General Exterior Views

General Interior Views General Interior Views

Detailed Exterior Views Detailed Exterior Views

Sections Floor plans

Ground floor

First floor

Structural Section Technical Data

MAIN DATAClient:Address:Type:Status: Building costs:Difference with budget:

DATASCompetition: Design of project: Construction:Implementation:

SURFACESSite:Main building:Other buildings:TOTAL:

PROJECT TEAMMain Architect:Collaborators:

Local Architect: Interior design:Lighting design:Landscape architect:Restoration architect:Digital imaging:Model:Photography: Structural engineering: Climate engineer:Building physics advisor:Fire safety specialist:Health and Safety: Urban planning: Survey:Site control:Contractors:Signage:

Central bus station. Huelva, Spain

TECHNICAL DATA OF THE PROJECT

Andalusian Autonomous GovernmentAvda. Doctor Rubio, 1. 21002 Huelva, SpainTransport, Commercial, Mixed usesBuilt7.108.290 € X,X % (motivo, mejora de calidad del cliente)

-19901991-19941994

12.786 m2

4.739 m2

-4.739 m2

Cruz y Ortiz ArquitectosBlanca Sánchez, Luis Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos Mulero, Miguel Angel Maese--ETINSA----Duccio Malagamba Blas González----Cruz y Ortiz ArquitectosAnálisis de Edificación y Construcción, Manuel PinoCubiertas y MzovAntonio Pérez EscolanoDamas, S.A.

AWARDS- First Prize, Ideas Competition. Andalusian Autonomous Government 1990- Architectural Prize, Official Andalusian College of Architects 1994-“The new construction building” prize, 1995

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