BARCELONA

SCALES — L/S – Urban / Architectural LOCATION — Canyelles - Nou Barris District POPULATION — City 1,604,555 inhab. STRATEGIC SITE — 11,2 ha / PROJECT SITE — 2,35 ha SITE PROPOSED BY — Urban Ecology area, Barcelona City Council OWNER OF THE SITE — Barcelona City Council POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Town planning development or partial development projects

Jaume Barnada — Strategy & Sustainability. Urban Ecology. City council of Barcelona

1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION? This project is a strategic opportunity to make the site more complex and also generate a new link between the Canyelles and Roquetes districts. At the same time, centralising activities are included and the connection between the city and the Collserola hills is recovered. This project is a clear commitment to the naturalization of the spaces that will be generated and an interesting proposal for the relationship between this process and urban productivity on a smaller scale. The project must therefore include sustainable and multidisciplinary criteria, and generate a new dialogue between urban design, technology and environmental aspects.

2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE? Barcelona has been and still is a productive city, particularly due to its density, compactness and mixed uses. The Barcelona City Council is now working to make its territory more complex, contributing to and maintaining these characteristics, which are being updated by new plans and projects, while at the same time ensuring their compatibility with residential uses and urban facilities. The city will be productive if the necessary habitat is created in every district. The project proposed for Canyelles includes a dense program with mixed uses: social housing, shops, sports facilities, public spaces, urban agriculture, energy generation, etc.

3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN? The competition results will be followed up by a planning and project process, which will also involve dialogue with local citizens, generating the urban and architectural parameters for the area and a range of urban improvement actions.

In Flow

AUTHOR(S) — Carles Enrich (ES) CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Adriana Campmany (ES), Anna de Castro (ES), Joan Martí (ES), Architects; Elena Albareda (ES), Laure Nicod (BE), Sostenibility enviromentalists;

BARCELONA (ES) — WINNER

Oriol Ferrer (ES), Jesús Quintana (ES), Marta Cassany (ES), Cristina Casanova (ES), Students in architecture CONTACT — Carles Enrich Studio, Barcelona (ES) carles@carlesenrich.com, www.carlesenrich.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — We propose a productive city model based on existing resources, self-sufficiency energy, and a reduced ecological impact on construction systems. We work the concept of permeability at all scales, understanding that the neighbourhood should become an intermediate space between the city and nature. We recover the water from the old Canyelles stream and channelled the runoff water to Meridiana Avenue, one of the highest traffic and environmental contamination arteries in Barcelona. We propose a system of productive dwelling based on a cooperative model, sharing common spaces such as the kitchen and the laundry, with intermediate spaces for the encounter and the dynamism of domestic activities.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The strength of this project is reflected in the reconstruction of the flow between the mountain and the sea, interspersing the new productive facilities and the housing between them, while seeking a continuity and permeability of the public spaces, with an emphasis on the insertion of new pedestrian link systems and sports or cycling circuits. Looking deeper at this previous point, the project suggests the recovery of the water catchment zone of the old Torrente de Canyelles rivulet, which will permit the irrigation of the proposed community vegetable gardens and the new landscaped areas.

Step by Step

AUTHOR(S) — Pablo Roel (ES), Eva Sánchez (ES), Architects CONTACT — Roel Sánchez Arquitectura, Barcelona (ES) T. +34 932193721, www.roel-sanchez.com

BARCELONA (ES) — RUNNER-UP

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — We notice that the 21st century crisis of the city, caused by decades of excesses of speculation, has fostered aseptic public spaces where inhabitants do not leave any footprint nor interact with others. It is therefore necessary to slow down the urbanisation process and promote new ways of inhabiting; more related to nature and the new production processes. The project, located in Canyelles district, is an opportunity to bring the urban park of Collserola closer to Barcelonans. It proposes the connection of the park with the city through productive platforms where urban gardens are planted and playing fields built. The houses, sitting at the edge of the natural terraces, provide permeability between the city and the park, and create new spaces for interactions.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — This project acknowledges the existing watercourse and permits horticultural uses. It enhances the continuity of the natural green belt that penetrates the city. The buildings are aligned with the street without creating a continuous frontage. This permits a sense of urban continuity but also a terraced permeability. The proposed scale of the building is appropriate as a transition from large apartment blocks to the mountain environment. The jury appreciated the ability of this project to be implemented in different phases.

AUTHOR(S) — Marta López Rubio (ES), Gonzalo Pardo Díaz (ES), Architects-urbanists CONTACT — T. +34 660083302 contact@masia-urbana.com, www.masia-urbana.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The materialization of discontinuity is proposed to build the gap between two places that possess opposite densities. Rather than concentrating the entire housing programme in a single building, we opted for a fragmentation of the space to be constructed as a strategy, shaping the lot as an isotropic landscape and with isomorphic qualities in its built spaces, as well as in its voids. With a clear objective to naturalize the urban spaces we bet on creating a great productive field according to the practice of the cultivation system based on the logic of the Japanese philosopher Fukuoka. The design of the dwellings takes into account the different lifestyles of the user and the public spaces of each building respond to the same strategy: a core where collective life is developed at different levels.