Name

Duchess of Orleans passage

Type

Equipment / Urban design

Place

Barcelona, España

Date

2010
The proposal is a remembrance of the old wooden bridges, the romanticism of its vaults, the disarm with a walk. Esplanade-chairs are proposed as an area of waiting and reflection. The introduction of giant pots with cactus vegetation and cork walls on the opposite side of the railway exit. The vaults are proposed to be covered with plaster-cal-sand and wooden structure.
Proposal for intervention of the Duchess of Orleans passage, for the improvement of the metro exit that connects a housing area of isolated typology and with little accessibility for the inhabitants of the area. Initiative to promote the Arts i del Disseny with the aim of rescuing corners or residual spaces that have been neglected or degraded.