Category Archives: Gran Vía · Bellvitge
AN EMBEDDED COMPASS
The junction of Rambla de Marina with the railway track and Gran Via becomes a place of high intensity. The project reveals this situation and draws, from this specific point, two great avenues that become real links between different metropolitan districts. Those two new curve-shaped guidelines shows how new metropolitan elements can still be imagined on this area.
Gran Via is lifted and converted into aa viaduct, thus becoming an artefact which is both infrastructure and architecture. This important street is divided into two separate levels: a more fast and metropolitan way at the top and new local services and facilities underneath.
Comment on the project by Àlvaro Clua.
A NEW NEIGHOURBOOD ON THE OTHER SIDE
A NEW NEIGHOURBOOD ON THE OTHER SIDE
The extension of Zona Franca, located at the southern side of Gran Via, can also become a way to imagine the future for this area. The project suggests the transformation of a site next to the river side into a neighbourhood well Connected to Bellvitge housing State.
The new district is structured along the sea-mountain oriented streets, i.e., those streets that follows the historic irrigation system of the Llobregat Delta. The towers are placed in-between the hospitals, at the intersection of Gran Via and the new links between Hospitalet and Mercabarna.
From a more general and metropolitan point of view, this option generates large urban spaces north of the Gran Via and a system of new links between Bellvitge and El Prat.
Comment on the project by Josep Alcover, Alba M. Garrido and Albert Figueras.
GRAN VIA AS AN OVERPASS
GRAN VIA AS AN OVERPASS
Gran Via’s continuous façade is extended from the Eixample to Cerdà Square. From that point, the housing blocks, large boxes, old warehouses and high-rise towers are arranged in creating a diverse succession of empty and built spaces.
The Project transforms Gran Via into a viaduct and a entral urban artery . A sequence of new buildings are displayed along the transversal streets that connect the different hospitals and the other facilities on this area.
The correct dimension and dialogue between the façades, the shadows and the corners becomes the key element of the proposal and a good way of taking care of the human scale at that place.
The intensity of the project allows to free space towards the Llobregat River.
Comment on the project by Pau villalonga and Guillem J. Pons.
THREE STREETS AND THREE FINGERS
THREE STREETS AND THREE FINGERS
Gran Via branches out in three parallel streets from Bellvitge to Ronda Litoral to generate urban density by linking platforms, buildings and public spaces around it.
New and old buildings create a strip of discontinuous façade in order to extend the urbanity beyond the Ronda Litoral Highway.
The new masterplan concentrates all the building area in an narrow area along Gran Via, thus, allowing the infiltration of the pen spaces system of the Llobregat riverside to the city. Those green fingers could balance the density of the built areas.
Comment on the project by José M. Cocchiararo
