Exactly 150 years ago, Ildefons Cerdà designed an orthogonal grid, the Eixample, of 20 metre-wide streets defining 113x113 metre blocks…
Nowadays, Barcelona is transforming the old industrial zone sited in Poblenou neighbourhood into a modern mixed-use area called 22@. New housing, offices, museums, old people´s homes and kindergartens… new activities and new businesses are replacing the old industrial landscape.
22@ is a modern urban plan application overlaid on the old Cerdà grid, and it is becoming an opportunity to test the flexibility of the pattern created in 1860.
Now in 2010 we are celebrating in Barcelona “L’any Cerdà” (Cerdà Year), producing some reflections through exhibitions, lectures, discussions and essays about Barcelona’s most singular urban feature.
TE’TSAB.10 International Workshop wants to contribute to this celebration / reflection with a practical case study.
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