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HOW TO DECOMPOSE CAUFEC

HOW TO DECOMPOSE CAUFEC
Pla Caufec’s uncertainties become a project strategy. The space that was occupied once by high voltage lines now aims to become a connection to Collblanc St. That trace has a great connecting potential at the two Diagonal Avenue sides and also matches with the territory’s topography.
With the existing Plan still under development but the already built streets the building density is concentrated close to the city with the aim of releasing urban density at the base of the mountain. Different strategies for the Diagonal’s junction arise always taking the goal to link back Sant Joan de Déu’s Hospital with the Avenue.

Comment on the project by David Bravo, Inés Masó, Elena Trius and Aleix Turon

A JUNCTION AS AN INTERCHANGE

A JUNCTION AS AN INTERCHANGE

The two-level junction of Diagonal Avenue with Ronda de Dalt is multiplied with the aim of proposing a great hub at that same spot. The already planned coach terminal is placed here and also an elongation of the L3 Metro Line.
The expressivity of infrastructural traces become the main element at this case. Superposition is manifested both underground and externally with new volumes located beside big surfaces serving Barcelona’s mobility: halls, parking and squares.

Comment on the project by Luis Bellera, Ferran Iglesias and Chantal Marfà

THE FIRST FACADES

EL PRIMER TRAM DE FAÇANES

El projecte condensa totes les accions al tram entre el nus viari i l’Avinguda dels Països Catalans d’Esplugues. La Diagonal estira la seva urbanitat fins allí gràcies a la solució elevada de les connexions entre Ronda de Dalt i la B-23 i aconsegueix així l’acumulació de nous programes metropolitans i de barri a peu de carrer. La secció de l’avinguda pren gruix amb els nous volums i usos que l’acompanyen.
A escala del projecte urbà s’assagen múltiples variacions volumètriques a la façana de la Diagonal, que busquen establir un nou ordre articulant alhora els antics darreres. L’espai es densifica situant un nou intercanviador (amb autobusos urbans i interurbans, metro, taxi i bicicletes) que identifica la posició estratègica de l’enllaç.

Comment on the project by Toni Cladera

STRETCHING THE WINGS

STRETCHING THE WINGS

The intervention defines a new form for Sants station by occupying the front and rear areas. It is an attempt to break with the current dichotomy between the main and full of life front façade and the more unused rear one.
The middle space is converted into a central urban corridor while Rrespecting the current access to the platforms. Two wings extend from the centre to the east and wWest direction and host new programs and facilities.
The station takes a clear longitudinal guideline: in one hand it connects with Numància-Tarragona street axis and, in the other, it re-organizes a new façade and a new space facing Sants neighbourhood.

Comment on the project by Nerea Castell

CONTINOUS FACADES?

CONTINOUS FACADES?

Although this corner could become representative as the ones at Passeig de Sant Joan or Passeig . de Gràcia, it is now just an empty spot.

The lack of continuity of the façades in this area generates an urban interruption and the lack of commercial activities. That could be one of the reasons why nowadays there are no bus lines crossing the full lenght of the avenue.

The proposal

suggests a fearless and clear intensification of the existint gardens by occupying it with a large mall that follows the sequence that has been used throughout the Diagonal Avenue (El Corte Inglés, la Illa, Diagonal Mar).

Comment on the project by Marc Rúcula

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.

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