152 [701] ADVANCED' ANNA PLA CATALÀ
STUDENT: Hewen Jiang, Yuchi Wang The project starts from the analysis of typical Barcelona living style—the use of exterior activity space. During the process of project development, several issues have been taken into consideration: Existing disadvantages of Superblock such as the reduction in traffic accessibility and under-use of new public space. The tools are developed according to the scales they work on. The urban scale tools take existing urban infrastructure into consideration. It creates a new urban fabric with less through traffic and more public space accessibility. The building scale tool maximizes the building occupants view to the public space, this is done by deforming building volumes and creating distinct corner conditions. The core concept of Superblock is to reduce traffic inside the 3x3 city block and increase walkability in the large nine block area. Then, increase the interaction between urban scale public space and the building scale public space including the rooftop, balcony and piloti.
CRITIC: Anna Pla Català