Europan 16 Results Catalogue - Living Cities /1

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Barcelona (ES) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — TORRENT DE L’ESTADELLA, SANT ANDREU DISTRICT, BARCELONA POPULATION — BARCELONA, 1,620,343 INHAB. SANT ANDREU, 148,232 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 80.5 HA - PROJECT SITE — 29 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL, URBAN ECOLOGY AREA ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — URBAN ECOLOGY AREA OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC / PRIVATE

JAUME BARNADA — Coordinator of International

Relations Projects Management. Urban Ecology City Council of Barcelona.

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site? The most impor tant issue raised by the Torrent de l’Estadella project was how to achieve a living city that includes residence, production and ecology and at the same time, provide urban complexity. Every valid solution requires an assessment of the urban fabric’s composition and its architecture, as well as the proposal of a short-term regeneration project. 2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”? Including industry in the mix of everyday uses is a question of inclusivity within the definition of the proposal. It also involves innovation in the development of the city’s districts. The projects and processes that derive from this system are a new way of regarding metabolism as a set of actions that accommodate people’s lives in an environment-friendly way. 3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects? In the case of Torrent de l’Estadella, the process was defined before the Europan 16 competition because it is a transformation steered by the Barcelona City Council. It has been proposed as a way to regenerate the industrial area on the right bank of the Besòs River and improve the value of the existing productive estates and housing areas. To this end, a development plan and a territorial management office are now being designed. We hope that the winning project will be able to accompany the process and provide an innovative approach. We also hope that it can be developed in the form of a series of plans and projects that generate ideas compatible with an ecological process of urban regeneration.


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