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The student of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) Ana Patricia Maté Sánchez de Val has completed the degree in Architecture designing a terminal that would allow Cartagena to meet the requirements to be a cruise base.

"It incorporates the uses that are missing so that the city acquires the category of 'home port', from where the cruising routes leave, which would allow to lengthen the days of tourists' stay," says Pedro García Martínez, .

"Right now on the current cruise ship can only be a large vessel landing passengers," explains the new architect.

The site would be the current container terminal, whose use is expected to be transferred to the future expansion of the Port.

The hybrid complex designed by the student includes a hotel with a hundred squares, housing that favors the opening of the Santa Lucía neighborhood towards the sea, offices for tour operators and terminals for three mooring points, which are necessary uses for Make of mattress before the increases of population that supposes the arrival of cruises to the city.

The entire complex is communicated through a walkway that hosts a complementary program such as discos, leisure areas and tourist information points.

The building has mechanized carparks in height and a facade with mesh of translucent nylon to retain the humidity and allow the captured water to be used to irrigate the garden areas.

"The complex, elevated, would generate a large public space with which the neighborhood of Santa Lucia would recover the vision of the Port," says Ana Patricia Maté.

"It would dampen the visual and urban impact of the arrival of cruise passengers to the city," adds Professor García Martínez.

The project, presented this month, stands out for establishing a dialogue between the enormous scale of the cruise ships and the city, and for capturing the footprint of the past, through the reuse of pre-existing cranes of the place, becoming a subtle element of the landscape .

Source: UPCT