Barcelona, Spain

Parque de Diagonal Mar

If the park has a scale comparable to the grand gardens of Barcelona its design and situation obliges it to increase in scale because of its connection with La Avinguda Diagonal, Carrer Taulat and above all to direct connection with the beach its difficult to imagine scale is its best quality. It is a large park which stretches out forwards the adjacent avenues.

Its design favours an interaction with the city It is ordered by following a series of paths which, similar to the branches of a tree, spread out in all directions.

A type of Rambla, a main throroughfase, connects La Diagonal directly to the nearby beach crossing the Litoral ring by means of a pedestrian bridge and it transforms itself into a series of recreational tracks: To stroll, For skating, cycling… etc… Walking… A large area of water in which there are various fountains, the leap of water and the vegetation on its edges oxygenates the water.

A recreational place, small boats, water games…

The presence of the water characterises the vegetation of the zone and the vegetation spreads following the character of shores near the sea and the lake.

Growing taller and denser until it reaches the adjacent streets.

Small places on the edges of the park.

Places where a series of large ceramic vases join with the existing vegetation, similar to the garden of a house, benches, pérgolas, tiled floors.

Text Enric Miralles, 1997

CREDITS

ARCHITECTS: Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, Miralles Tagliabue EMBT

Landscape Architects: Enric Miralles i Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT + Edaw, London

Project Team: Elena Rocchi, Lluis Cantallops, Fabián Asunción

Collaborators: Mònica Batalla, Ezequiel Cattaneo, Roberto Sforza, Makoto Fukuda, Laura Valentini, Máximo Chizzola, Cristofer Hofler, Stefan Geenen, Michael Eichhorn, Stefan Eckert, Christine Himmler, Georg Mahnke, Wolfang Lukas Hainz, Jan Marko Grebe, Francesca Tata, Angelo Floros, Piercarlo Comacchio, Angelo Catania, Ulrike Stübner, Andrea Möller, Hirotaka Koizumi, Dani Rosselló, Makoto Fukuda, Kaori Sato, Adrian Versuere, Fabián Asuncion, Isabel Zaragoza, Andrea Möller, Ulrike, Isabelle Sambeth, Liliana Bonforte, Tobias Gottschalk, Luca Tonella, Jan Koettgen, Tobias Aus Der Beek, Charlotte Bojsen-Möller, Mónica Carrera Vazquez, Francesco Jacques- Dias, Sven Gosmann, Pierre Lauper, Adria Goula, Riccardo Alessandroni.

Urban Planning Architects: Oscar Tusquets, Xavier Sust

Engineers: Europroject Consultores Asociados, José María Velasco (Engineer)

Constructor: Benjumea

Europaconcorsi Beta

Parque de Diagonal Mar