THREE SMOKESTACKS.

2º Semester - Academic year 2018 - 2019 Collaboration agreement between the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) for the realization of the Master Barcelona in Landscape Architecture (MBLandArch).

THREE SMOKESTACKS

REDEFINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BARCELONA, SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS AND BADALONA AND THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT

LESSON PROFESSOR ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO II ENRIC BATLLE I DURANY

MARIO SUÑER JAVI ZALDÍVAR

THREE SMOKESTACKS REDEFINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF BARCELONA, SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS AND BADALONA AND THEIR NATURAL ENVIROMENT LANDSCAPE DESIGN STUDIO II

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INTRODUCTION

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WORKING SITE

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TOPIC

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COMPETITION

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SPECIFIC PROJECTS

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ACTIVITIES

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INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

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LECTURES

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ROUND TABLES

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INTRODUCTION

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1 – INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this agreement is the collaboration between the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in order to support and promote the Master’s Program in Landscaping in the semesters corresponding to the Year 2018, 2nd semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.

The Convention seeks good technical cooperation and financial support for the Master’s Degree in Landscaping to ensure the achievement of a good educational level for students, which responds to current social needs, in an emerging professional field such as landscaping .

The Master’s program will include the organization of one workshop that will deal with the metropolitan isues in relation with territorial structures and the appreciation of the landscape itself, addressing thematic and locations proposed by the AMB. This publication describes and documents the development and result of the workshop corresponding to the 2nd semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.

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2 – WORKING SITE The main objective of the course is to study the relationship between the municipalities of Barcelona, Badalona i Sant Adrià del Besòs and their closest natural environment: the Llobregat River and the seafront, according to the term: CITY - GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE - AGRICULTURE. During this semester, students will work on through all different scales of a landscape project, starting from a large field of action to successively go down the scale to define more specific and detailed proposals.

The workshop will redefine and improve the relation between the three municipalities and their natural environment by developing three main aspects: the improvement of BIODIVERSITY (by means of topographic design, rainwater treatment and new green-infrastructure’s design), CONNECTIVITY (physical and ecological, by means of the design of a new public space) and PRODUCTIVITY (as a key condition of new landscape of XXIth Century). All these three concepts have a common objective: the sustainable development of our cities.

Aerial photography

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TOPIC

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3 – TOPIC LOCATION & CONDITIONS The analysis of the improvement of the relation between city and its natural environment must take on account all themultiple existing handicaps on the area:

Oblique photography

The three smokestacks When you walk through that area you can’t avoid noticing the presence of the power station, with its three tall smokestacks. Although the station is not in the municipality of Barcelona, it is clear that its uniqueness and visual power are a milestone in the northern coastal landscape of the city, from the moment it was built in the 70s. Three smokestacks 200 meters high don’t go easily unnoticed.

The plant has been controversial since its inception as it is still today, although it is under partial demolition. Its construction generated many protests, which actually caused one death. During the decades of operation, the plant generated black rains in the municipalities of Sant Adrià and Badalona, that made cars and clothes dirty. In 2008, when its closure was approved, people from Sant Adrià decided in a referendum to keep the three chimneys of the plant as a symbol of identity of the city, although participation in the vote was very low.

As part of the historical memory, they should be taken in account in the urban context and analysis in order to be integrated, but it final use as a facility is not part of the aim of our subject.

Green infrastructures: Besòs River Normally, urban spaces are surrounded by nature. In the Besòs area the situation is the inverse, nature is surrounded by urban spaces. This differential situation demands special care in the treatment of the ecological values of this environment to turn this green infrastructure into a great ecological and social potential. The recovery of the final stretch of the Besòs river has been fundamental to achieve the improvement of ecological quality, environmental quality and, very especially, to favour social use in a context that is very much in need of environmental leisure.

Biodiversity, as a set of species in a territory, is a good indicator of improvement and environmental health.

Biodiversity is not just any ecological value; it is the ecological value par excellence. Without biodiversity there are no ecosystems and no environmental quality.

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Metropolitan infrastructures: the train.

El ámbito tiene una fuerte presencia de infraestructuras que han bloqueado la relación de los diferentes municipios con sus espacios naturales cercanos. Paralela al mar discurren las vías del tren que sirve como conector metropolitano pero que a la vez actúa como una gran cicatriz y como barrera física en el territorio.

Current Public Space System. Streets, squares and parks Like any consolidated area of every city, the study area has different existing public spaces such a streets, squares and parks. All these spaces must be integrated, but also can be improved or even transformed, in the context of each Masterplan proposal.

Seafront: a continuous of facilities The study area responds to a continuum of facilities (with greater or lesser success) with which the city of Barcelona has wanted to use its waterfront, thus trying to convert what until a few years ago were degraded areas into new poles of attraction for activities: García Fària St. (Ravetllat-Ribas), Poblenou Park (Manolo Ruisánchez), Diagonal Mar Park (Enric Miralles-Benedetta Tagliabue) Forum Park (Torres-Lapeña) with the Auditoriums Park (Alejandro Zaera) & swimming area (Beth Galí), as well as the sewage treatment plant, Marina-Besòs sport facilities, the thermal power station, the Port of Badalona, etc.

New Housing Development At the same time, the study area has a planning for a future housing development that must be analysed, taken in account or been reconfigured.

Water as a thematic thread Rainwater management & treatment (such as infiltration, purification, storage or control courses) must be taken into account in all Masterplan proposals.

Project side visit

SUBJECT ORGANIZATION The semester is divided into two parts in which students will work through different scales, from the biggest (Masterplan) to the smallest one (constructive details), in order to recover connectivity and to improve natural and social values of the area.

1st PART Competition The first part will be developed as a Landscape Design Competition with jury, organised by MBLandArch, in collaboration with AMB (Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona), BR (Barcelona Regional) and Besòs Consortium. It must be developed in pluridisciplinary teams of maximum three people, and it will be divided into two phases: 1st phase: purposeful analysis The jury will evaluate previous studies of the area in terms of purposeful analysis. Every team must demonstrate the knowledge of the area: its physical condition, problems and opportunities, by means of strong ideas (IDEAS FORCE) that end in a previous idea of a global proposal (Masterplan).

2nd phase: Masterplan Based on the results of the 1st phase, each group must develop a Masterplan that defines a global strategy of intervention. The Masterplan must achieve the workshop objectives in order to restore de full values of the area from the knowledge of topography, water dynamics & management, the improvement of biological corridors, the use of vegetation, and its itineraries and uses, from three main concepts: CONNECTIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY & BIODIVERSITY. Information should be delivered in two ways:

- digital format: by email.

- physical format: to be exposed the date of submission.

Fore more information: see files attached.

2nd PART Specific projects During the second part, students will develop (individually) the most representative areas of each Masterplan, working through different scales (general plan, sections, axonometries, details, images…) so that they will be able to materialise a real solution.

SUPPLIED DATA During the first lesson, where the exercise statements are exposed, a number of lectures about related subjects are also given:

Round tables in the ETSAB

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The project site - Javier Zaldívar & Mario Súñer Detailed presentation of the site including all of its peculiarities.

Bèsos river mouth aerial photografy

‘Metropolis of cities’ exhibition, which presents the new Urban Master Plan of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, at Citilab.

Visit of our students to the new exhibition, “Metropolis of cities”in Cornellà.

“Metropolis of cities” exhibition, in Cronellà

Display of old student work - Javier Zaldívar & Mario Súñer Examples from past years are shown to the students, seeking to guide them into the subject language.

Tomás Wainstein work, 2018

Tadeo Campos work, 2018

Lina Flórez work, 2018

Bárbara Freire work, 2018

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CALENDAR 14:30 - 20:30 (6h)

CONTENT

WEEK 1

February 13th

PRESENTATION Enric Batlle - Mario Suñer - Javier Zaldívar (MBLandArch) Noemí Martínez + Virginia Díaz del Río (AMB) Montse Monteagudo (AMB)

WEEK 2

February 20th

WORK SESSION

WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5

February 27th March 6th March 13th

WORK SESSION 1st PHASE COMPETITION JURY EVALUATION WORK SESSION

WEEK 6

March 20st

WORK SESSION

WEEK 7 WEEK 8

March 27th April 3th

2nd PHASE COMPETITION JURY EVALUATION SECOND PART BEGINNING (individual work)

WEEK 9

April 10th

WORK SESSION

April 17th HOLY WEEK April 24th May 1st LABOR DAY May 8th May 15th May 22th May 29th June 5th June 12th

WEEK 10 WEEK 11 WEEK 12 WEEK 13 WEEK 14 WEEK 15 WEEK 16 WEEK 17 WEEK 18

HOLIDAYS WORK SESSION HOLIDAYS WORK SESSION INTERMEDIATE SUBMISSION - END OF CLASSES VISIT TO VALL D’EN JOAN - LANDFILL RESTORATION EXTRA CORRECTION CLASS (if necessary) EXTRA CORRECTION CLASS (if necessary) FINAL SUBMISSION

Below is a listing of the students who have participated in the Workshop of Landscape Projects II during this 2nd semester of the 2018 - 19 course, with the final configuration of the work teams as:

FEDERICA FORCESI

OURANIA CHAMILAKI 5 1

ANA RODRÍGUEZ

VÍCTOR DÍAZ ASENSIO

MARIA LUCÍA RODRÍGUEZ

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ARELY CASTRO LEIRE GUTIÉRREZ MARIA AMELIA LÓPEZ

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CARLA COMPTE SHEREEN DABBAS VIVIAN RODRÍGUEZ

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GISELA ESPINOSA CATERINA COVI MAURICIO MORFÍN

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DANIEL GARCÍA HÉCTOR RAMÍREZ MARCO SCHOLTMANN

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ESTEFANÍA JIMÉNEZ CAROLINA SANABRIA PENGHUIZI ZHOU

ROSER GARCÍA EDUARD LLARGUÉS LAURA RODRÍGUEZ IGNACIO ROJAS

BIBLIOGRAFIA VVAA, AV MONOGRAFIAS 207. Batlle i Roig. Building with nature ISBN: 978-84-090-3867-1 “Batlle i Roig. Veinte jardines 1981-2011” Revista Paisajismo. Colección “Monográficos del paisaje” Ed. Asflor Ediciones ISBN: 978-84-614-5314-5 “Batlle i Roig Arquitectes. Arquitectura 1996-2009” Revista TC Cuadernos nº 91. Ed. Ediciones Generales de la Construcción ISSN: 1136-906X Enric Batlle: “El jardín de la metrópoli” ColecciónLand&ScapeSeries. Ed. Gustavo Gili. ISBN: 9788425220098 Hélène Izembart, Bertrand Le Boudec: “Waterscapes. El tratamiento de aguas residuales mediante sistemas vegetales” Colección Land&ScapeSeries. Ed. Gustavo Gili. ISBN: 9788425218866 Teresa Galí-Izard: “Los mismos paisajes: Ideas e interpretaciones” ColecciónLand&ScapeSeries. Ed. Gustavo Gili. ISBN: 9788425219627 Astrid Zimmermann: “Constructing landscape. Materials, techniques, structural components” Ed. Birkhauser Architecture. ISBN-13: 978-3034607209. 2ª edición Virginia McLeod: “El detalle en el paisajismo contemporáneo” Ed. Blume. ISBN: 978-84-9801-266-8 “Tectónica 30. Espacios exteriores” Monografías de arquitectura, tecnología y construcción.

VVAA, Re-visiting Metropolitan Barcelona. Public space 2013-2017 Ed. Barcelona. AMB 2018 / ISBN: 978-84-87881-22-0 VVAA, Espais metropolitans 2008-2012 Projectes i obres .

Ed. Barcelona. AMB 2012 / ISBN: 9788487881091 VVAA, Espais metropolitans 2005-2008 Projectes i obres .

Ed. Barcelona. MMAMB 2010 / ISBN: 9788487881053 VVAA, Espais Metropolitans 2000-2004.

Ed. Barcelona. MMAMB 2006 / ISBN: 9788493008093 VVAA, L’Espai Públic Metropolità 1989-1999.

Ed. Barcelona. MMAMB 2000 / ISBN: 8493008060

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1st PART - COMPETITION COMPETITION PURPOSES Besides the academic goals of this Landscape Design Studio II, this workshop has the determination of addressing its goals by exploring motivating methodologies for students and, at the same time, bringing them closer to the reality of the professional world. For this reason, the faculty team has decided to develop this first part of the course as a simulation of the protocol of a competition of ideas with jury intervention.

WORK GROUPS The working groups shall be made up of 3 students. Although there is the possibility of some variable groups depending on the arithmetic of the class. Multidisciplinary groups as well as groups of people of different nationalities will be taken into consideration.

A group of students during a work presentation

JURY The jury will be made up of Landscape Design Studio II faculties, the representatives of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and technical specialists from the City Council of Cornellà de Llobregat. The weighted assessment of all jury members will proclaim the winning proposal.

PROCEDURE The first phase of the competition will evaluate the previous studies through an assertive analysis demonstrating the knowledge about the place: its physical reality, problems and opportunities. The starting point will be from the strength ideas leading to a previous idea of global intervention (Masterplan), always keeping in mind the concepts: BIODIVERSITY, CONNECTIVITY and PRODUCTIVITY. During this first phase, a visit to the site will be made jointly with the workshop faculties. There will be also a work session at class before the delivery.

Students exposing their work in front of the jury

COMPETITION DEVELOPMENT The proposal submission will consist of a single panel DIN-A1 vertical orientation, (according to the file provided) serving as a sufficiently explicit graphical documentation of the Project. A successful proposal panel must address the following: • •

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MOTTO + MEMORY: explanation of the assertive analysis and the STRENGHT IDEAS. PROPOSITIVE SCHEMES where it is clearly understood how the concepts of BIODIVERSITY, CONNECTIVITY and PRODUCTIVITY will be applied.

PREVIOUS SCHEME OF MASTERPLAN: as a summary of the ideas strength.

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SITE VISIT Once all the information and explanatory talks are given, the students, in their corresponding groups, start the first phase of work. During this first period, the groups have the opportunity to visit the area of study, in order to deepen its knowledge and analysis before the exposure to the rest of the groups.

Photos of the students visiting the site

VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION “METRÒPOLIS OF CITIES” “Metropolis of cities” exhibition wants to publicize the PDU, the Urban Master Plan of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona: a set of guidelines and urban norms that has been worked by more than 400 experts and technicians from the different metropolitan municipalities and that offers a new look at the urban planning that adapts to current challenges: climate change, energy transition, new social demands, sustainable mobility or housing policies.

The exhibition consists of 6 different thematic blocks: The metropolis in the region ‘, Green infrastructure’, ‘Urban metabolism’, ‘Sustainable mobility’, ‘Residential fabrics’,’ Areas of economic activity ‘,’ Constellation of centers’, ‘Wall of guidelines’ and ‘Metropolitan, supramunicipal and local projects’.

Photo of the students attending the exhibition

Photo of the29students attending the exhibition

1st phase: proposal analysis The jury will evaluate previous studies of the area in terms of analysis proposals. Every team must demonstrate the knowledge of the area: its physical condition, problems and opportunities, by means of strong ideas (IDEAS FORCE) which will rely upon a previous idea of a global proposal (Masterplan).

Photos of the analysis presentation

BLENDING SYSTEMS

Gisela Espinosa + Caterina Covi + Mauricio MorfĂ­n

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PRETÉRITO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO Ourania Chamilaki + Víctor Díaz-Asensio

mergeset

Arely Castro + Leire Gutiérrez + Maria Amelia López

MERGESET THE ANATOMY OF MERGING ARTERIES The main idea of this “mergeset” is to establish a new and worthy connectivity with the beach by merging three cities of Barcelona at one ideal space with historic landmark.

When thinking of anatomy as a set of complex elements working together, we instantly think of processes that happen at once, yet each one has been developed or introduce as independent. But, in short notice, they are all tune in. This brief moment, that we will call “merging”, is where we considered this physical place has its strength and potential.

When thinking of anatomy as a set of complex elements working together, we instantly think of processes that happen at once, yet each one that processes has been developed or introduced as independent but actually they are all tuned in. This brief moment that happens is what we linked to we will call merge set is where we considered the strenght and potential are found in this physical place.

A discontinuos rambla towards the beach, a railway and tram barrier that divided an old industrial zone, and a covered sewage, placed in front of an historic valuable infrastructure at a low quality beach, are the problems that don't provide relation between the elements that set up the place. An easy and proper access to the public space is missed. These are acting only as independents in the merging process for a place that requires syncronization and life.

This brought us to identify the physical features that could work as opportunities, such as the area considered beach. And we just say “considered”, because just a pile a sand and facing the sea are not the only qualities that suggest a beach. Another feature that work as an opportunity is the street that faces the beach perpendicular, stretching from the end of the existing rambla, where the train station is located. When these two features meet, suddenly two arteries are developing and merging, leaving no time or space for a break in this continuous ideal set up.

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LANDSCAPE AND ECOLOGICAL VALUES 1 Beach 2 Smokestacks 3 River mouth 4 Bèsos river 5 Badalona Port 6 Port Forum Bèsos 7 Old train brigde

N Sant Adria Station Railway network

Iron Bridge Pont del Ferro

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FESCA + EDESA Smockestacks construction began

Repeated black racin and pollution of the sea-shore + criticism and protests

Shut down of EDESA’S station; remains skeleton of three smoke towers

1980s

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Sant Adriá city counsil declared the place as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

2015

And last, but not least, three strong physical features, two ports and the three smokestacks, stand out in this landscape. These stretches the already formed arteries even more, and add opportunity spaces for biodiversity and productivity to take place. It also enhances the connectivity of the previous mentioned cities (Badalona, Sant Adria and Barcelona). By making ins and outs propagation of sand at the meeting point of these cities, where the 3smokestacks are found, a new propagation of public life and life's energies are managed.

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CURRENT STATUS Pedestrians Bike lane established Paths where cyclist can ride Beach acces to people with dissabilities Roadways Train Tram Sewage lane Train rail Uncontinous path Public space Housing Industrial Schools

Timon lepidus

Tarentola mauritanica

Psammodromus Hemidactylus alguirus turcicus

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Public transport

Boundaries and barriers

REPTILES Bufo calamita

Pelobates cultripes

AMPHIBIANS

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Rattus norvegicus

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Mustela nivalis

Crocidura russula

Charadrius dublus

Charadrius alexandrinus

Atelerix alguirus

Mus spretus

MAMMALS Galerida cristata

Larus michahellis

STRATEGIES

BIRDS Pancratium maritimum

Medicago marina

Eryngium maritimum

Calystegia soldanella

Cakile maritima

CONECTIVITY

Ammophilia arenaria

Main paths VEGETATION

Rambla and Pier Bridge Pedestrian and cyclist accesibility

Road systmen

BIODIVERSITY Mergeseted beach Dune system Mergeseted vegetation

Public space

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Typology

STRENGHS

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OPPORTUNITIES

Beach Smokestacks Badalona Port Port Forum Besos Economic Zone Besos River Active public transport system Sports facilities

Sewage at beach Lack of quality public space Abandoned infraestructures Lacks accesibility to the beach Null night activity in industrial zone Incompability of uses Water mixture/ Equilibrium Barriers to beach access

Clean alternative energy Connectivity Productivity/ Shops Housing/Restaurant Biodiversity management Train/Tram station/ Pathways

THREATS

Rivermouth pollution

FREEING CHIMNEYS

Carla Compte + Shereen Dabbas + Vivian Rodríguez

PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPES

Federica Forcesi + Ana Rodríguez + María Lucía Rodríguez Productive Landscape

CONECTIVIDAD Se reconoce la Av. d’Eduard Maristany como eje metropolitano, por donde pasan tren, tram y bus que conectan con otros municipios y zonas de Barcelona. Además es una vía de tránsito tanto para trafico diario de automóviles, bicicletas, peatones, como tráfico de mediana carga, adyacente al área industrial.

Recuperando la identidad agrícola.

La propuesta responde al análisis de tres variables: conectividad, productividad y biodiversidad. Generando en el frente marítimo un paisaje productivo, que redefine la relación entre los tres municipios involucrados y el medio ambiente natural. La propuesta desarrolla una conectividad tanto física como ecológica mediante el desarrollo de una nueva infraestructura verde metropolitana, involucrando además área mixtas de vivienda y servicios.

Carrer Olímpic, Av de la Playa y Av. del Maresme como ejes barriales con potencial de conectores transversales, el primero como conexión con el Río Bésos, y los dos últimos como flujo comercial que en estas avenidas sucede.

Se plantea una promenade conectando los dos lados del municipio a través del puente sobre el Río Bésos, dando continuidad al paseo marítimo.

Por último un sistema secundario de conexión que responde a los antiguos trazados agrícolas.

Arc de Triomf El Clot Sants Parallel

Glories

Pz Catalunya

Narbona Diagonal mar

Rda Sant Pere

Ejes barriales

Campus diagonal Besos

Barcelona Molins de Rei

Eje Metropolitano

Santa Coloma Badalona

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat

Maçanet-Massanes

Sant Adrià

Blanes Calella

sistema secundario

Arenys de Mar

Promenade

Mataró

Cuencas visuales

El sistema de ejes transversales potencia las cuencas visuales, volviendo la relación de la ciudad con el mar.

Cuenca visualconexión transversal

Cuenca visual

Infraestructura verde

Estructura urbana Housing baja densidad

La estructura urbana de la zona se compone mayoritariamente de parcelas destinadas a industria y servicios y en una menor cuantía residencial. Se proponen viviendas, con servicios y equipamientos generando una diversidad de usos que activen la zona propiciando además del uso industrial el residencial.

Rambla Comercial

Industrial Servicios Equipamiento Vivienda Propuesta vivienda+ Servicios+equipamientos

Parque Urbano

PRODUCTIVIDAD HousingServicios Oficinas

Antiguamente la zona era principalmente agrícola, con algunas industrias y viviendas.

Se plantea recuperar parte del suelo agrícola, sus trazados antiguos, con una producción agro-forestal.

La gestión del suelo podría estar a cargo del consorcio del parque, donde los productores puedan trabajar la tierra, fomentando una distribución km0.

Housing temporal

Áreas Agrícolas 1946

Distribución-Km 0

Productores

Gestión Consorcio Parque Agrícola

Antiguas trazas agrícolas

Área propuesta Agro-forestal

BIODIVERSIDAD La desembocadura del Río Bésos presenta una gran diversidad ecológica. Esta zona es parte del corredor ecológico del Río que conecta la desembocadura con la Sierra de la Collserola.

Se plantea aumentar el área, generando una reserva que actúa como buffer entre el Río y la zona productiva.

Este último en conjunto con la infraestructura verde colaboran también a aumentar la diversidad de la zona propiciando hábitats para diferentes especies.

Producción

Paseo Marítimo

Rambla Marítima

Río bésos Sierra Collserola

Área propuesta Agro-forestal

Corredor ecológico

Reserva natural Desembocadura Río Besòs

Infraestructura verde

Desembocadura Besòs

Producción

Playa

Reserva Natural

Paseo Ronda verde

Tejido urbano

Eje metropolitano

Producción agro-forestal

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Infraestructura verde

Actividades acuáticas

ZEITGEIST

Daniel García + Héctor Ramírez + Marco Scholtmann

FACTORING NATURE

Roser García + Eduard Llargués + Laura Rodríguez + Ignacio Rojas

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DINAMIC ECOLOGIES

Estefania JimĂŠnez + Carolina Sanabria + Penghuizi Zhou

Masterplan Based on the results of the 1st phase, each group must develop a Masterplan that defines a global strategy of intervention. The Masterplan must achieve the workshop objectives in order to restore de full values of the area from the knowledge of topography, water dynamics & management, the improvement of biological corridors, the use of vegetation, and its itineraries and uses, from three main concepts: CONNECTIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY Y BIODIVERSITY.

Photos of the masterplan working groups

Photos of the masterplan winners and the jury

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BLENDING SYSTEMS

Gisela Espinosa + Caterina Covi + Mauricio MorfĂ­n

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PRETÉRITO PLUSCUAMPERFECTO Ourania Chamilaki + Víctor Díaz-Asensio

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MERGESET

Arely Castro + Leire Gutiérrez + Maria Amelia López

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FREEING CHIMNEYS

Carla Compte + Shereen Dabbas + Vivian Rodríguez

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PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPES

Federica Forcesi + Ana Rodríguez + María Lucía Rodríguez

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ZEITGEIST

Daniel García + Héctor Ramírez + Marco Scholtmann

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FACTORING NATURE

Roser García + Eduard Llargués + Laura Rodríguez + Ignacio Rojas

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DINAMIC ECOLOGIES

Estefania JimĂŠnez + Carolina Sanabria + Penghuizi Zhou

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Exhibition of the Masterplan Based on the results of the 1st phase, each group must develop a Masterplan that defines a global strategy of intervention. The Masterplan must achieve the workshop objectives in order to restore de full values of the area from the knowledge of topography, water dynamics & management, the improvement of biological corridors, the use of vegetation, and its itineraries and uses, from three main concepts: CONNECTIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY Y BIODIVERSITY. The deliberation of the winning group was in charge of a qualifying jury formed by: Noemí Martínez, Head of Projects and Urban Design Section, Public Space Services Directorate of the AMB Virgínia Díaz del Río, Architect and Landscape architect of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB).

Marc Montlleó Balsebre, Environmental Project Director. Barcelona Regional Enric Batlle, Mario Suñer and Javi Zaldivar as a profesors of MBLandArch.

Review of one of the Masterplans in front of the jury

Review of one of the Masterplans in front of the jury

Masterplan winners and jury

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2nd PART - SPECIFIC PROJECTS During the second part, students will develop (individually) the most representative areas of each Masterplan, working through different scales (general plan, sections, axonometries, details, images‌) so that they will be able to materialise a real solution.

Caterina Corvi

Gisela espinosa

mauricio morfĂ­n

ourania chamilaki

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victor dĂ­as-asensio

arely castro

maria amelia lรณpez

leire gutierrez

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carla compte

shereen dabbas

vivian rodrĂ­guez

federica forcesi

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ana rodríguez

maría lucía rodríguez

daniel garcía

héctor ramírez

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marco scholtmann

roser garcĂ­a

eduard LLARGUÉS

laura rodríguez

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ignacio rojas

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EXHIBITION DAY Finally, Landscape design studio II course is concluded with the final exhibition where the students explain the individual projects executed in Phase 2 related to the Masterplan.

For this final exhibition we have a qualified jury formed by: Marc Montlleó Balsebre, Environmental Project Director. Barcelona Regional Josep Bohigas, Strategic planning Director. Barcelona Regional Noemí Martínez, Head of Projects and Urban Design Section, Public Space Services Directorate of the AMB Virginia Díaz del Río, Architect and Landscape architect of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB).

Ramón Torra, manager f the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB).

Enric Batlle, Mario Suñer and Javi Zaldivar as a profesors of MBLandArch.

Final review in front of the jury and the rest of the class

Final review in front of the jury and the rest of the class

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“METRÒPOLIS OF CITIES” exhibition.

Visit to the exhibition

LLOBREGAT RIVER

Group visit to Can Comas

LANDSCAPE RESTORATION OF GARRAF WASTE LANDFIL Group visit to restored waste landfil projected by Batlle i Roig

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6th Internacional construction festival in Chengdu, China.

After the success of “Mind the Gap”, the international workshop about Tactical Landscape Urbanism in Barcelona organized in 2016 by MBLandArch (in collaboration with the Harbin Institute of Technology of China), the School of Architecture and Design of Southwest Jiaotong University of Chengdu (China) invited us to participate in the 6th Cup SWJT International Construction Festival that took place in May 2019, an important training in design, innovation and aesthetics, which has become a benchmark not only among the students of the Campus themselves, but for the entire city of Chengdu.

Based on the topic “Game-Space / Space-Game” five first-year students of MBLandArch (chosen from an academic competition within the subject Landscape Design Studio II) conceptualized and built a full-scale prototype with a maximum budget of 6000 RMB in local currency, about 800€.

The starting conditions: the prototype had to fit in a maximum volume of 3,5x3,5x3,5m, the main structure had to be made of wood and had to resist the strong winds and rains characteristic of the wet season in Chengdu.

In just six days, 16 teams from several different nationalities shared the experience of turning an idea into something real and tangible. From the initial design to the final result, the students faced the challenges of materialization of an idea, such as the choice of material, its manipulation or the modification of constructive details during the execution process itself.

This brochure summarizes the design and construction process of “Blending Nature”, the model that represented MBLandArch at the 6th SWJT International Construction Festival: an organic structure, topography-responsive and local-adaptative, that was awarded the 3rd prize. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

Concept

345 elements 690 screws 8699 km 6 people 6 days 5 Hedera helix 14 Bougainvillea glabra The concept borns from the idea of using a unique element to build the whole structure. We use 2 modules coming from the same piece of wood: one of 20 cm and the other of 60 cm.

Through the repetition of the same rigid, geometric element we manage to create an organic structure, topography-responsive and location-adaptive. The structure is the game, human-scaled. Anyone can climb, play inside, sit, enjoy the view towards the lake, breathing and bathing in nature.

An important aspect of our project is the necessity of being waste-free, sustainable and low budget.

As vegetation blends into the structure, we are blending architecture and nature, creating a landscape aiming at unifying our different cultures, Asian and Mediterranean creating new connections and new perspectives.

On-Site process

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ETSAB spanish team in the international workshop in Chengdu: Professor leader: Javi ZaldĂ­var Students: Caterina Covi Gisela Espinosa LĂłpez Laura Rodriguez Calzada

Maria Lucia Rodriguez Rodriguez Mauricio Morfin Quintanar

All participants in the international workshop in Chengdu

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Aerial photo of all participant proposals

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8 – CONFERENCE ON Landscape

MBLandArch

Màster Universitari en Paisatgisme

ON 31.05.2019 Landscape ETSAB Sala graus

Avda. Diagonal 641 Planta baixa

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pepa morán

Arquitecta, paisatgista i coordinadora MBLandArch www.pepamoran.com

anna noguera

6th International construction competition Southwest Jiatong University Of Chengdu

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javi zaldívar

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Arquitecte i paisatgista. www.javizaldivar.com

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Arquitecte www.annanoguera.com

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michèle & miquel pausa dinar

elena albareda

Ing. Agrònom i paisatgista www.emf.cat

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Arquitectes i paisatgistes www.michele-miquel.com

martí franch

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taula rodona

anna zahonero Biòlega, paisatgista i coordinadora MBLandArch www.azpaisatge.com

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Arquitecta i sòcia de Cíclica Arquitectura scp www.ciclica.eu

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xavier fàbregas Ing. Agrònom i coordinador MBLandArch

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ana coello Arquitecte i paisatgista www.anacoello.es

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Arquitectes i paisatgistes www.scob.es

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enric batlle Dr. Arquitecte i Director MBLandArch www.batlleiroig.com

Images of the different conferences and activities planned in the On landscape day

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Images of the different conferences and activities planned in the On landscape day

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At the same time, in the subject “Landscape Composition I” four round tables were organized in order to deal with three current and specific topics in in 21st Century’s public space: 1-Waterscapes 2-Productivityscapes 3-Mobilityscapes 4-Climatescapes Professionals and academic experts of recognized standing explained their own experiences, in order to create a rewarding debate that stimulates the students to start thinking about new landscape paradigmes in 21st Century.

1-WATERSCAPES Our society is becoming more and more conscious about the importance of water as a natural resource. As landscape architects, we must have the ability to manage it in our projects and designs, and must be capable to choose the appropriate solution in every situation: collecting, cleaning, accumulating and reusing it, or simply controlling its strength (devastating in some cases), especially in Mediterranean hydrological regime.

Iván Sánchez Fabra: “WATERSCALES” Rainwater helps us to re-think and re-design our cities in order to improve their environment quality. He went trough different scales, “from satellite to loupe”: from bigger one (land-use planning) to medium (topographic modelling) and smaller scales (like the design of different elements that help us to enjoy the landscape). Water has become a great ally that all landscape architect must deal with.

Roberto Soto: “WATER CYCLE IN URBAN LANDSCAPE” Water is essential for live, but we often underestimate its really importance and we do not keep on mind while designing in public space. We usually look at it as a problem that must be knocked out of the way. We prefer to look at it from a distance, instead of as a natural resource. The truth is that rainwater is not a problem but an opportunity. It exists very long time before cities and we do not take advantage of it. We do not respect water cycle, life cycle in a holistic point of view.

2-PRODUCTIVITYSCAPES Design, management and conservation of productive landscapes is essential in new paradigm in landscape in 21st Century. It’s really important to promote local farming (cityFARM) in order to supply cities with natural local products.

We must protect our productive landscapes, not only for zero-food-miles, but also for its great social, cultural and identity value, essential for a sustainable development of our cities. Moreover, productivity also means new energy resources and less maintenance, and these thing should be included in our designs from the very beginning.

Sónia Callau-Berenguer: “AGRICULTURAL PARKS AND FOOD GOVERNANCE MOVING TOWARDS AGRO-URBAN SYSTEMS” The intersection between urban planning and food has aroused a growing interest in the past few years in the areas of research and policy. Extensive literature is devoted to food systems, alternative food networks and food planning. Much of this literature emphasises consideration of food on a local scale and the importance of using food to reconnect the city with its agricultural periphery. The main arguments in favour of this new paradigm are food security and food self-sufficiency and sustainable and resilient development of cities. However, food production in the rural-urban fringe is still threatened, and calls into question the sustainability per se of local systems. A rapidly emerging vision with significant support amongst professional planners and local communities is the integration of food issues in urban planning. This presentation proposes a new methodology for urban planning in relation to cities’ nearest agricultural area and agro-urban planning systems. The conclusion is drawn that sustainable food systems are only possible if urban planning incorporates the food vector and only if done so from a systemic interpretation of the rural-urban relationship.

Luis Maldonado: “BEFORE AND AFTER AGRICULTURE” The story of the approach from Landscape Architecture to Agriculture and Forestry at the academia could also be seen as the display of a new urban mind-set and the shift from space to food as common flux linking them. The presentation will shortly summarise that ongoing process to explain the foundation of our current Research by Design work to shape 21st century landscapes in an increasing urban world.

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3-MOBILITYSCAPES Those “not-so-new” sustainable (and healthy) models of mobility that work out really well with society as a collective, have come to stay. And different political from local, regional and national administrations prove that. Little by little, they are re-designing new mobility planning in order to add those new ways of moving. Landscape designs for the 21st Century must improve pedestrian connections and sustainable mobility beyond private transport. New spaces for relations between citizens must be created.

Sílvia Casorrán: “IS SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY CHANGING OUR URBAN LANDSCAPES? THE CASE OF SUPERBLOCK IN POBLENOU”.

We all have been born and also live in cities ruled by motorize vehicles. They belong to our concept of urban landscape. To our ancestors, car possession was a symbol of status, and even nowadays most of us cannot live without a car, or at least, we cannot get rid of it in our daily mobility. But individual ownership of cars is ancient history: the space is limited, quality of the air is getting worse and the speed that cars offer to us has no sense in cities… Are we all citizens, specialists and politicians ready for #postcarcity?

Jordi Galí: “FROM CAR URBANCIDE TO BICYCLE URBANGENESIS” Bicycle has reappeared as a means of transport in cities in the 21st Century. But we should go further and start thinking about the cities of the future, where bicycle will have a deep and transversal key roll in mobility that cars had in cities of the last century. We need to build up the idearium of the perfect (and utopian) new city as it was made with automobile cities in the first half of the 20th century. Car killed the city and even worse, we still depend on it. It’s necessary to “bici-vilize” the city and the society of the 21st century. It’s necessary to visualize the “Velotopia”.

4-CLIMATESCAPES World leaders recently met to discuss global climate change and its impacts on all forms of life and the natural and built environment. It will be up to many individuals working together to make the necessary changes that we need to reduce the effects of global climate change and to mitigate the impacts of the climate changes that are already in motion. Everyone can lend a bit of expertise and the design community in particular has long thought about sustainable initiatives, energy efficient building, and ways to reuse and adapt buildings and materials. As we will see, water management and sustainable mobility can help to not to increase climate change. But other projectual decisions such as using recycled materials in order to reduce construction waste heading to the landfill, promoting regional material in order to reduce carbon footprint, or reducing heat-island effects.

Josep Roca: “URBAN HEAT ISLAND OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF BARCELONA” There is a wide consensus that Land Surface Temperature (LST) plays a key role in the generation of the Urban Heat Island (UHI), representing a determining factor in terms of surface radiation and the interchange of the energy, in addition to control the distribution of that between the surface and the atmosphere. Moreover, the composition of land covers are one of the main factors that influence the LST. The reduction of vegetation affects not only in an increase of the LST, but also the reduction of precipitation and evapotranspiration. The relationship between the LST and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is especially well‐documented. The general objective of the research is to study how planning and urban design affects in the generation of an Urban Heat Island (UHI), as well as the urban microclimate in general, using remote sensing techniques. Urban morphology plays a key role in the generation of UHI. Blanca Arellano: “THE HEAT ISLAND AND THE CLIMATIC BEHAVIOUR OF THE URBAN CONTINUUM VILADECANS-GAVÀ-CASTELLDEFELS” The aim of the study is to carry out a diagnosis of the climate behavior of the urban continuum of Viladecans-GavàCastelldefels, and particularly of the Heat Island in general, in order to assist possible strategies and measures of adaptation to promote resilience to the climate and improve the quality of life of citizens. This study was conducted using information from LANDSAT 8 and is based on Sentinel-2 images to provide a more detailed NDVI and MODIS images for the night-time LST.

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PROFESSOR

Enric Batlle PhD Architect, Landscape Architect. Associate professor in the Department of Urbanism and Regional planning UPC. His PhD thesis “The Garden of the Metropolis” received, among others, the UPC’s Extraordinary Doctorate Prize. He is a founding partner of Batlle i Roig Arquitectura. He won the 2012 FAD Prize Theory and Criticism with the research work “The Garden of the Metropolis”. His current research is focused on the Green infrastructure of the new Metropolitan Urbanistic Director Plan – PDU as head table of the Landscape division.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Mario Suñer

Architect. Vice- director of Landscape Projects at Batlle I Roig.His professional experience during 12 years in Batlle i Roig is intensely related with the Llobregat River, its recovery as a natural space and its transformation as a metropolitan public space. He has had the chance to work very actively in many projects along this river in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area and nowadays he is working on the development of the future Llobregat Blue Path.

The central theme of his research project will be ‘the new sustainable mobility and its potential in the landscape transformation, merging city and nature’.

Javi Zaldivar Architect, Landscape Architect. CEO at JZPaisajismo landscape office. Former worker at Batlle i Roig Architecture.

He was the landscape architect at the Orla Conde project: new seafront of Guanabara’s Bay in Rio de Janeiro, finalist of Internacional 2016 FAD awards. The central theme of his research project will be ‘the importance of projectuals decisions in the later management of public spaces’.

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The landscape architecture is interested in all the exterior spaces and, from the design of public space that Barcelona has projected to the world, we have returned to look at the large scale and we have incorporated the language of ecology.

In relation to the large scale, landscape architecture is related to geography, land management, social sciences and all urban decisions that, day by day, build the reality of our cities.

Ecology, biology, agronomy, the different environmental sciences and the various landscape engineering projects are all part of the decisions we make, from the most global to the most local, from those most related to environmental problems to the most simple ideas that we can use in the conservation, restoration, or construction of our landscape.

This multi-disciplinary and trans-scalar vision, which is typical of landscape architecture, is also built without renouncing the capabilities of the world of art and architecture that have traditionally nurtured our profession and which have been so brilliantly developed by the School of Architecture of Barcelona.

Enric Batlle, Director del MBLandArch

MBLandArch collaborates with the School of Agriculture of Barcelona of the UPC and with the participation of diverse university departments, professors and professionals from diverse disciplines for the development of the different subjects, of the special workshops that are developed periodically and of the MBLandArch Lectures.

MBLandArch deals with projects that, in most cases, are linked to collaboration agreements with the public administration and the professional world, allowing us a real vision of the current problems of landscaping and a direct contact with the entities and people who develop it. The students of our Master also have the opportunity to take a professional practice in several public or private offices of recognized prestige.

MBLandArch has collaboration and exchange agreements with several international universities and belongs to EMILA (European Master of International Landscape Architects), a joint program with other European universities (Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Hanover and Versailles) that gives the opportunity to five students of each of the universities to spend the second and third semester in two different universities, obtaining the corresponding recognition.

MBLandArch is recognized by IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects), an international association that recognizes and accredits the professional activity of landscape architects and landscape architects