The intervention in the surroundings of the Real Club Náutico de Dénia starts from a clear idea: to suture the historical fracture between the city and the sea. Where before there was a limit, now there is a friendly, functional and respectful transition, which dignifies the urban edge and turns it into a space for coexistence.
An intervention that does not transform the port, but reveals it. It does not impose, but rather improves on what was already there, making the sea part of the city, and the city part of the sea.
The new promenade acts as a seam between the city and the Mediterranean, linking the urban and the natural through a design attentive to scales, uses and the pedestrian experience.
The sea views are amplified, the circulations are arranged and the materials dialogue with the port environment. Rest areas, adapted vegetation and accessible paths are incorporated, inviting people to inhabit the coastline beyond transit.
The action does not impose a new landscape, but rather reinforces the existing one and improves its reading, giving back to the citizen a place historically reserved for the technical and the private.
The complex is articulated around a series of singular elements that, without taking center stage, structure the new public space: Corten steel pergolas that provide shade to the parking area and promenade, specifically designed street lamps that accompany the rhythm of the path, and a floor treatment that varies subtly in texture and tone depending on the use: pedestrian traffic, vehicular access, living areas or contact with the sea.
In addition, a free-standing building is erected for the sailing school and associated warehouses, conceived not as a closed volume, but as a light and permeable piece, rooted in the climate and the intensive use of the outdoor space.
The result is a choral project, where the sum of the parts enhances the collective experience without losing the human scale.
The sail building is clad with light filtering elements, which allow the passage of filtered natural light and cross ventilation, but ensure privacy and protection from direct exposure. These skins act as a membrane that breathes with the environment, passively adjusting light, shade and temperature.
In the exteriors, the palette of materials – draining paving, natural finishes and corten steel – underscores the nautical and industrial character of the port, but with a renewed, elegant and contemporary interpretation.
Each surface has been thought not only from the design, but also from the use: there is no gratuitous gesture, everything responds to a need and a desire for permanence.
