E18 sites - Barcelona-La Verneda (ES)

Barcelona-La Verneda (ES)

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Location Calle Santander, 12, La Verneda neigh- bourhood. Barcelona
Scale L/S
Site Family Re-sourcing from social dynamic / Promoting open Neighbourhoods

Commission after competition Design of a Special Urban Development Plan, preliminary Urban Development and Building Project for a public housing development with ground floor and/or first floor facilities.

Inhabited milieu's challenges The project site, a plot of 2,369 m2, is located in the Sant Martí district, in the Verneda neighbourhood of Barcelona, very close to the future Sagrera Intermodal Station and the linear park that will cover the railway tracks. The plot that constitutes the project area is classified as a fa- cility and is located in a transitional position between two very different urban fabrics. On the one hand, it is surrounded by high-rise social housing buildings from the 1960s and, on the other, bordering the Prim Sector, an area of conversion from industrial to residential use. The future Sagrera Intermodal Station and its linear park, currently under construction, will have a great influence on the project area as they will reconfigure mobility both on a local scale and on an urban and interurban scale, will allow the union of neighbourhoods historically separated by the railway wall, as well as the urban recovery of the railway and industrial land.