Livelicity _ Urbhang BCN

Urbhang BCN

“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic.
If you plan cities for people and places, you get people and places.”

Fred Kent

In line with Barcelona City Council vision to make a better city for people and pedestrians - through the expansion of car-free areas and interventions on the city public spaces - Urbhang BCN proposes to transform a vehicular intersection into a lively square.

Following a bottom-up design approach, the iconic shape of Barcelona Eixample block and intersection - the octagon - is reduced to the human scale creating a module that can host a wide spectrum of installations/activities.

Modules catalogue

The 'Superilla' (Superblock) model
The intersection is transformed into a square, a shared space prioritizing pedestrians over cars.
The octagonal module is spread as a fictive grid to connect and unify vehicular and pedestrian spaces.