Recovery of the Old Gypsum Mines of Igualada: New Sustainable Mobility Infrastructure

Batlle i Roig, Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Accessibility, Active Public Spaces, Architecture&nature, Bicycle, City, City views, Continuity, Cycling roads, Ecological activation, Environment, Green Ring, Igualada, Infrastructure, Landscape, Lighting design, Natural connectors, Network, Park, Pedestrian realm, Post-industrial Landscape, Project, Recovery, Spain, Sustainable, Sustainable infrastructure, Territorial Approach, Territory&Mobility, Topography, Transportation Systems, Urban Legacy, Vegetation

Photography: Jordi Surroca

The project is set within the broader scheme of the Igualada Green Ring, the aim of which is to generate a series of itineraries for pedestrians and bicycles in the form of a green belt around the city’s perimeter. This new sustainable mobility infrastructure sets out to design a system of parks and peri-urban open spaces that function as a network suitable for environmentally friendly leisure activities, adapting and recovering, to a large extent, spaces that are currently run-down or underused. In this context, Camí de les Guixeres, the track leading to the mines, represents the recovery of a stretch of 1.65 kilometres, out of which the first 800 metres have now been completed.