Tag Archives: La Rovira

BIRD’S EYE POSTCARDS

BIRD’S EYE POSTCARDS

The increasing admiration of Antoni Gaudí has highlighted the Park Güell as an undeniable touristic attraction. Visitors get there using touristic buses and wanderingy steep streets. Could webalance the high pressure on this space by leading touriststo thewider area of the Tres Turons Park?

A cable car could allow visitors going up from Park Güell to the top of Turó del Carmel (+265), a viewpoint which still remains surrounded by nature. The next stop could be El Coll (+190) in order to let tourist step in this neighbourhood. From that point, the cable car could climb up to reach the impressive landscape of the historic bunkers at the top of Turó de la Rovira (+260). That would be a great highlight before arriving to Guinardó Park (+120), a place well connected to the public transport by means of a new urban platform.

Comment on the project by Elisabet Usón

A MAJOR NEW ACCESS

Keeping in mind the idea of how the city conquered Montjuïc with the development that followed the 1929 International Expo and Plaça Espanya, this project aims to define a strong new entrance for El Turó de la Rovira, hills that have remained hidden so far.

The entrance starts at Font Castellana square, at Guinardó. It is a more complex version and urban context than the solution used at Montjuïc in 1929.

The project suggests one empty urban space made of a platform with could house facilities underneath and a great balcony lookings to the city. A diagonal axis links this space and the Metro station with El Parc de les Aigües, and Can Mascaró Quarry. From there, the project enables a new access to the top of the hill and the bunkers viewpoint.

Comment on the project by Ferran Montoya

LINKING PARKS

LINKING PARKS

For several years, the Municipality of Barcelona has been developing projects oriented to convert the Tres Turons in a great public park. In this idea of park is essential to pay attention to the paths and connections.
This project seeks pedestrian alternative routes to the Carmel road. One of the proposed pathways starts at Park Güell’s parking, following a parallel path to the Carmel road andgoing over El Coll. The pathway continues along the plain Mülhberg Street and, after crossing the bridge, it get to the bunkers.

Comment on the project by Miquel Ruiz and Melody Devillier

A NEW BRIDGE

A NEW BRIDGE

The location of the Coll hermitage is a strategic place to link El Carmel and El Turó de la Rovira.
The project studies how to set a new bridge. The connection between the two routes needs to fix the two levels where the bridge takes place.
The impact of the new infrastructure in local and global scale becomes a relevant point of interest.

Comment on the project by Cerni Pérez

SENSING NATURE

OPPORTUNITY ROUTES

OPPORTUNITY ROUTES

Carmel and Coll neighbourhoods are thigh urban spaces where houses arises on the slope and, therefore, where many party walls and retaining walls connected with stairs and narrow passages appear. Following Josep Llinàs’ advice, wecould imagine small interventions to pay attention to the scale of the surroundings.
This project takes advantage of empty plots, clumsy constructions and similar situations in order to propose itineraries that climb the mountain and connect the lower streets with the upper ones by using new escalators that makes life easier for the neighbours, and, indirectly, approaches the park to the city.

Comment on the project by Daniel Burston and Marta Benedicto.

OPENING WINDOWS

OPENING WINDOWS

Carmel is a neighbourhood made of narrow streets and buildings that are often too high for them. That’s why sometimes is delightful to discover a gap left between party walls, displaying a view to the city below.
Inspired in by the neighbourhood appearance, this project proposes the construction of urban balconies by setting specific instructions and placing light floating platforms on those empty plots.
Those new public spaces could be combined with new social housing and small facilities, attending to the surrounding scale. The operation configures a set of small squares that act as open windows to different parts of Barcelona.

Comment on the project by Claire Bellocq and Alexandra Bové

METRO CABLE

OPENING WINDOWS

This project proposes a public cable car that links the Metro network to Els Tres Turons Park. It starts at Vallcarca L3 metro station, crosses Park Güell, stops at El Carmel neighborhood, reaches the bunkers at the top of Turó de la Rovira, flies over El Guinardó and, finally, links with Sant Pau metro station (L5 and future L9). The line follows the hill’s ridge and offers great views to the city.
Each stop would enable the allocation of new cultural and leisure facilities, and the transformation of the park into a more enjoyable experience for citizens.

Comment on the project by Sara Peinado