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The new architect from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) Alberto Moreno proposes in its Final Grade use the arrival of the AVE to Cartagena to integrate the eastern suburbs of the city by extending the current railway station and remodeling its environment.

"Acting on the station is seen as an opportunity to solve the problems of the center, which looks better than moving it to the area Mandarache" defends the student already entitled referring to the site chosen by Adif as a destination for high-speed train.

The student project revolves around a transport interchange, which convivirían passengers AVE, conventional trains, buses and taxis while "favor new forms of mobility, the new station would be equipped with areas to promote service vehicles shared across applications such as 'Blah Blah car', with facilities that would facilitate the use of bicycles and electric cars, "Moreno says.

The new station would be connected by a road platform with the Union thus could save the current difference in height and physical barriers between the districts of Eixample and Los Mateos be diluted.

To do this, it would be necessary to reconvert the first section of FEVE getting its layout was permeable, "support its tracks would be, in this area, similar to those of the trams, which does not block the passage," exemplifies the student School of Architecture and Building.

The work, led by professor UPCT Pedro Garcia Martinez, also includes the excavation of the routes from the bridge Torreciega, to "allow natural expansion of the city towards the East."

In the liberated soil trees would be planted to create a large urban center in this case would be connected even with the greenway del Peral neighborhood.

The new building would be large, but would dialogue with the historic station "retranqueándose to his main facade, without exceeding height, maintaining a relationship of respect," says architect and.

A "cover inhabited" a new public square at the top of the intervention would become a visual reference for these neighborhoods is one of the highlights of a project "resilient, whose internal organization would be flexible to accommodate program needs and social future of the place in which it is located, "he concludes.

Source: UPCT