A Peu de Carrer
This project explores and engages with the community life of the Poble-sec neighbourhood, to reach a conclusion that can be applied to all urban environments: contemporary cities are increasingly polarising public environments with respect to domestic ones, establishing a clear boundary that distances us from participation with our immediate surroundings. However, neighbours are actively collaborating in the creation of common spaces, which act as a doorway to appropriation.
Through exploration, the project puts into practice a matrix that combines typology and scale within a specific urban episode. Nine open categories —cleaning, lending, playing, a plaque, a tablet, a swing, a swimming pool, a door and a watchtower— propose different languages and formats of intervention and appropriation and intervene in order to identify a reality, to mediate between several realities or to generate a new one. Various temporalities, methodologies and results allow us to discuss and confront each other, bringing the public and the domestic space closer and celebrating the common one.
Through exploration, the project puts into practice a matrix that combines typology and scale within a specific urban episode. Nine open categories —cleaning, lending, playing, a plaque, a tablet, a swing, a swimming pool, a door and a watchtower— propose different languages and formats of intervention and appropriation and intervene in order to identify a reality, to mediate between several realities or to generate a new one. Various temporalities, methodologies and results allow us to discuss and confront each other, bringing the public and the domestic space closer and celebrating the common one.
