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IN THE SHADOW OF SAGRADA FAMÍLIA

IN THE SHADOW OF SAGRADA FAMÍLIA

From Jaussely’s Plan (1903) until General Metropolitan Plan (1976), Barcelona has been planning different ways to give more visibility to Sagrada Família from the main streets of that area: Diagonal Avenue and Marina St.

For the last three decades, the construction of the final Sagrada Família has been affecting the existing houses right to the south of the building. But the level of consolidation of the existing building difficult makes difficult its demolition.

This proposal presents a softer intervention, by setting up a new composition of empty spaces that arrives until Diagonal Avenue, without giving up the idea of a frontala route and cross views that interested Gaudií already at its origin.

Comment on the project by Maria Comas

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