From ideas to process-projects
Europan 13 - Barcelona (ES)
« IN MOTION »
Project strategy family:
- Ecological connections
- Inclusive morphologies
- Inventive typologies
- Reinterpreted heritage
- Urban articulations
Process category:
- Direct order processes
- Competitive processes
- Co-creative processes
- Collaborative processes
- Participative processes
- Participation of the Living processes
- Adaptative legal framework processes
Authors: Langarita Navarro Arquitectos (María Langarita, Víctor Navarro, ES)
Client(s): Strategic planning agency Barcelona Regional
Dates: 2015 - 2018
Driving forces: CLIENT + TEAM
Site
Barcelona (ES)
SELF‐SUFFICIENT SOCIAL HOUSING
SCALE L/S SIZE 10.5ha / 1430 m2
One of the main goals of the Marina del Prat Vermell's urban model is to make economic and residential activity compatible. The new buildings will be laid out in a balanced combination between residential uses (75%) and business activities (25%), as well as a major provision of public facilities and spaces. The architectural proposal for a self-sufficient social housing block must be approached on various scales to make a major step forward in urban strategy.
Awarded Idea
Project - Ideas
IN MOTION
“In Motion” project is an architectonic strategy for an adaptable and self-sufficient city. An adaptable city is a city able to manage times of change and keep up with the speed of its inhabitants. A self-sufficient city is a city that thinks of its life cycles synchronized with the production of resources.
Both objectives are applied at two scales:
- The Urban Plan: we reduce the prophylactic layer of hard pavements covering the city and more power is given to the porous and permeable floors to recover the cultural landscape of the Marina de Sants in the long-term. The objective is that the civic and natural cycles synchronously pass through time alongside the appearance of urban orchards, recollection systems and water treatments or the proliferation of native ecosystems.
- The Project: The building acts as a group of high resistance plots/slabs of municipal management. Each platform acts as an equipped plot with independent management and reprogramming. The high-capacity communication systems allow for the coexistence of diverse uses throughout the whole building breaking the usual public-private vertical gradient. The constructive and material solutions arise as the combination of local intelligence to make them easily transformable and they are thought to manage the obsolescence of the different layers (facilities, façades, partitions, etc.) that allow a sustainable and economic adaptation.
Project Strategy
Family: Inventive typologies
RESEARCH ON A MEDITERRANEAN AND ECOLOGIC ACTIVE CITY
Due to public procurement rules, the city could not entrust the project to the team, but the Barcelona Region planning office asked them to conduct research called "Elàstic" on the adaptable city, based on their prize-winning ideas.
The research develops a strategy to achieve a city model compatible with the demands and citizen needs of the present but also with those of the Barcelona of tomorrow by giving it a city identity while promoting socially and economically adaptable urbanism. Able to manage urban transformations in different contexts of actors and resources, considering the limitation of means and reducing energy consumption. ELÀSTIC is the proposal with which to produce a Mediterranean, complex, dense and socially active city capable of adapting over time with the minimum use of resources and being environmentally conscious.
The interest is to open fields of reflection and provide starting points from which to reformulate what has been studied: the variable of Time, Material consistency and Resistance to change of the built as vector of analysis. Ultimately, a city production strategy is proposed based on the concept of adaptability.
From the temporary condition, the variables that would allow the increase in urban resilience are explored.
The objective is to question the logics from which the city is produced and to incorporate new cultural sensitivities based on metabolism, gender logics or care strategies.
Process
Category(ies): Direct order processes, Participation of the Living processes
Direct order processes
Following the competition, the Barcelona Region's strategic planning office commissioned the winning team to conduct research on the theme of the Adaptable City based on their award-winning ideas.
Participation of the Living processes
The goal of this research is to question the logic behind urban development and to incorporate new cultural sensitivities based on metabolism, gender dynamics and care strategies.
