WE ARE CITY - SOM CIUTAT

Team Point of View

“WE ARE CITY“ empowers residents through human-scale, renaturalised public spaces and interventions on buildings. Super-block model fosters pedestrian-friendly areas, reducing car use for a united neighbourhood. Residential building aggregation improves facades, and it creates a semi-public garden and other communal spaces at ground floor while it enables to have new space for shops, workshops and public services. Carrer Alfons el Magnànim and Rambla de Prim are key focus areas, featuring squares, markets, and green spaces. Rambla de Prim boasts a natural, green environment with a sports path and Mediterranean vegetation. The project connects well with Barcelona, enhancing mobility with cycle lanes and pedestrianized streets. Access to community services is within a 15-minute walk.

Jury Point of View

The jury valued the overall strategy of the project, which relates the neighbourhood to its surroundings and urban context, thus reinforcing its links with the Forum, the Besós park, the Diagonal Mar park and the new green axes. The project is based on a powerful urban backbone, the Rambla Prim, where all the commercial, leisure and social activity is to be concentrated. Thus, it leaves some interior spaces, between blocks, of a semi-public nature more closely linked to residential use. The renaturalisation of the public space and the creation of spaces of proximity together with the regeneration of the dwellings are the focus of this project.