Typology
Typology
Urbanization and public space project
Situation
Poble-sec, Barcelona
Team / authors
labaula arquitectes, Roberto Fornari
Promoter
BIM/SA
Surface
5.019,25 m² (Fase 1)
3.010,00 m² (Fase 2)
Budget / PEM
1.047.756,56 € (Fase 1)
949.255,78 € (Fase 2)
Project and work dates
2015-2018
Memory
The historical analysis of the site confirms the important role of the Poble Sec area as the base of the paths that the people of Barcelona used when they went from the old city to the mountain of Montjuïc. The trace of the old route of the path establishes the bases of the current project.
The project is divided into two administrative phases, corresponding to the redevelopment of the streets Radas and Concòrdia (Phase 1) and the Plaça del Setge de 1714 (Phase 2).
The street Concòrdia is pacified and returns to the neighborhood and pedestrians, like that path of ascent to the mountain that it had been for some time. The pacified character, already existing in the upper section of the street Concòrdia, is extended to the lower level. The operation also spreads along the street Elkano and the entire Plaça del Setge de 1714, up to the sidewalk of Paral·lel.
The decision to redevelop Concòrdia Street and the square into a single platform is reinforced not only by its historical and symbolic content, but also by urban logic, creating a friendly route between Paral·lel and Plaça Margarida Xirgu.
Radas Street, between Pg. De l’Exposició and Elkano Street, maintains the segregated section. However, the sidewalks are widened to make them accessible and to incorporate an alignment of trees. The resulting roadway accommodates a circulation road and another for parking in a cordon.
Plaça del Setge is completely pacified: it is formalized as the intersection of Radas and Concòrdia Streets and reconnects the interruption that the road currently creates on the sidewalk of Avinguda Paral·lel. It is treated as a single space in terms of furniture, trees and uses, but with the materials it recognizes the determining role of the old layout in the current urban configuration of the neighborhood.