Abstract
The construction of the public space has become in the last decades something so important and fundamental in the architecture of the cities, that requires a specific discipline and a concrete study that evaluates the characteristics and actions on it. Not already from an urbanistic perspective but from its own design and constructive perspective, with its character as a place for everyone and for everything, must gather a series of elements that are unique to this space. Barcelona is one of the densest cities in the world that, since the end of the s. XX until our days, tries to solve the public space with a design of quality and optimum. The shortage of public space, which also hosts more than eight million tourists each year, makes it necessary to propose a type of meticulous intervention in order to accommodate all types of users and activities. From the first Universal Exhibition of 1888 through 1929 to the 1992 Olympics as the most important stimulus for this renewal of urban space, Barcelona has been rethinking and evolving in the modus operandi in terms of its urban space. From our professional experience as architects both in the municipal, private and university spheres, we believe that it is our responsibility to confer the public space, that is to say, the design of the urban infrastructure with the attributes necessary to consolidate it in a space Suitable for all without exception and as a place of expression of citizenship. Through the projects of public space developed in our office we will analyze this change of procedure in the construction of squares, parks and other spaces in the city of Barcelona.
Highlights
The exterior architecture, where the building ends, where the outside begins and there is contact with everything else, that outer space that is technically resolved or constructed with walls, pavements, vegetation, enclosures and through which networks of service through
The shortage of public space, which hosts more than eight million tourists each year, makes it necessary to propose a type of meticulous intervention in order to accommodate all types of users and activities
Through the projects of public space developed in our office we will analyze this change of procedure in the construction of squares, parks and other spaces in the city of Barcelona
Summary
The exterior architecture, where the building ends, where the outside begins and there is contact with everything else, that outer space that is technically resolved or constructed with walls, pavements, vegetation, enclosures and through which networks of service through. The implantation of the bicycle and the connection by tram would finish the new mobility led by agency of urban ecology in his fight against the private vehicle as main means of transport Of this fought and discussed vision of Barcelona, the execution of the new public space from the controversial project of the Glòries Park / Square until the definitive recovery of the maritime front and even the failed contest of the so-called “Portes de Collserola”, debate at all scales. At present, the precept of consolidating of making the small public space close to housing and of a local and neighbourhood character is more versatile and useful This new way of acting in the public space is called as "micro developments", urban acupuncture based on minimum performances. This flexibility is not fortuitous, arises from the analysis of the pre-existence and the direct population that will make use of the place
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