Oasi

The intervention in the old riverpark of Sallent, starts with a real assignment from the town hall that proposes the rearrangement of the riversides and fluvial space of the Llobregat River. The site placed between the Torre del Gas ( Gas tower) and the Fàbrica Vella (Old factory), heritage of the industrial past, is a terrain that has been gained to the river due to the accumulation of sediments generated by the existing water lock.

Oasi is the renaturalisation of a transformed area caused by the latent industry. It allows to approach the river through a strategy of topographic movements in relation to the flooding and the plantation of different layers of native autochthonous species of vegetation. The riverside forest becomes a rich ecosystem in which appears a natural space in the middle of a strongly constructed atmosphere. Providing new uses and functions in the public space that guarantee urban resilience and the ecological connectivity of the territory, Oasi becomes a natural system that has the capacity to rediscover the original spirit of fluvial dynamics and last in time.

In the context of an emerging culture that rediscovers the river, is renewed the perception and relation of the societ with a leisure space and re-encounter with a recreation of the nature. The proposal presents the vocation to strength and dignify the identity of a place that has forgotten its own roots.

Oasi is a transformation of the built environment. Oasi is a way of understanding the territory.

Oasi resets the landscape.