"Mediterranean
corridor" finalist in the competition for the Sagrera linear
park.Our project for the Sagrera linear
Park, presented under the motto "Mediterranean corridor"
and conducted jointly with Batlle-Roig, Beth Galí and
Tarrasó-Espinás, is among the five runner-ups of the competition
that took recently place.The
city of Barcelona is known for its variety
of patterns, densities and uses,
and the neighborhoods in the immediate vicinity of the new park are
no exception. This careful
look at the environment
generates the park. A park
necessarily fragmented,
as the city itself, where the
pieces are enshrined through a subtle story line
that provides continuity and a metropolitan scale.The
territory of the park has historically been an area of fracture,
which distanced the neighborhoods to their flanks. To establish
urban
connectors
that facilitate cross paths and articulate the environment is the
starting premise. The nature of these connectors should reflect the
way the city approaches the park: one will link public spaces and
equipments of high use, others will have a more intimate character.The
park is set up as a succession
of episodes
of two kinds: squares,
linked to the main connectors, that respond to the immediate
environment, and a number of Mediterranean landscapes,
with abundant trees and vegetation, that establish a rhythmic
sequence of references that go beyond the city itself.The
park alternates neighborhood
squares with palm
tree areas, orchards, gardens, meadows and pine forests, in order to
create a Mediterranean
corridor
that relates to the itinerary of the underground train.This
park is equipped
with interactive signage and self-managed,
with a high percentage of surface drainage, an irrigation system that
uses rainwater, photovoltaic pergolas that satisfy its own needs, and
an appropriate choice of indigenous plants.