EPU – Barceloneta

La Barceloneta is a neighborhood that gives the city of Barcelona its maritime character. Despite its small size, nestled between very clear physical boundaries such as the beach, Port Vell, Ronda Litoral, and Port Olímpic, it serves as a narrative of significant moments in the history of the city's transformation.

It is a neighborhood of maritime and military origin; its land comes from the space reclaimed from the sea. It is precisely this condition of a coastal neighborhood that is the genesis of the social, economic, and environmental transformations that will develop in the present Urban Landscape Study.

However, its future is marked by the presumably more intense effects of the climate crisis on the territory, and by the socio-environmental challenges faced by the entire city, which involve restoring resilience and ecological variability.

For this reason, the objectives of the Study will focus on three axes or perspectives from which the set of works that traditionally make up the Urban Landscape studies of the city of Barcelona are articulated.

- Reincorporate the structuring values of maritime identity as a theoretical and technical concept, capable of reconciling the relationships of the Barceloneta neighborhood with the sea and its spatial and temporal dynamics.

- Highlight the possibilities for improving the public space of the coastal neighborhood, recognizing the diversity of endemic activities as well as the criteria for socio-ecological integration.

- Propose strategies to improve local quality of life through the understanding and integration of ordinary heritage, as a fundamental part of managing public space sensitive to local needs.

OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY

The methodology suggested in this Urban Landscape Study incorporates phases of approach through the collection of information, analysis, diagnosis, and the detection of values, weaknesses, and potentialities, as well as some articulated strategic proposals, not only from the most immediate present but also from a necessary future that we must begin to imagine.

From a multiscale analysis through cartography, photographs, data, and narratives, this proposal illustrates an approach to the urban landscape of the neighborhood from a perspective sensitive to social, environmental, cultural, and economic components.