Manifesto
Being isolated from the rest of the city and having insufficient services surrounding it, the neighborhood of Can Baro has long been in need of becoming independent. Throughout history, Can Baro has gone through changes that have always left it with various insufficiencies. From lack of services to not enough housing, it seems that over the years, the city of Barcelona has put its focus on bringing more and more tourists to the area while ignoring its everlasting problems. The site requires a bold intervention; A program that not only helps provide the community to become self sufficient, but it also revitalizes the area for the locals and outsiders. Any temporary and small program that has been proposed on the site thus far, have proven to be not enough. The site sits in the center of the neighborhood, and asks for attention. However, when approached with an invisible architecture, it once again fails to continue existing. The idea proposed here is to connect the green areas of the neighborhood from the bottom of the hill all the way to the site to create a green corridor as the journey one goes through. Later, as the site is approached, one encounters a factory of production in which the users can also enjoy the spaces both for fluid programs based on community’s needs, and to create a stronger sense of community and revitalizing the neighborhood through communal gardens. The productive program is meant to not only provide for the neighborhood of Can Baro, but also through a circular use of water and waste, revitalize the dead soil of the surrounding. That being said, the landscape around the site then becomes space for communal gardening, where the memebers of teh community can both contribute and take advantage of. Such a complex program will require workers to be on site on unconventional hours of the day and night, therefore, to ensure that the program is well supported, a support building is introduced to house the workers and provide spaces for the laboratories and all that is needed to keep the project going. The project therefore sits as an efficient factory of production in the middle of the site, and ensures that the spaces in between the building and the wall of the quarry become alive and drag the community into it.
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