Miralles/Tagliabue EMBT - Diagonal Mar Park

Miralles/Tagliabue EMBT
Diagonal Mar Park
Barcelona, Spain

Photo courtesy EMBT

A Garden of a House
Text by Enric Miralles

“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 a direct connection with the beach, it is difficult to imagine scale is its best quality…
… It is a large park which stretches out forwards to 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….”

photo: arcspace

Drawing courtesy EMBT
Site Plan

Total area: 14 hectares
Completed: 2002

Promotor: Diagonal Mar/Hines
Architects: EMBT
Enric Miralles/Benedetta Tagliabue
Landscape Architects:
EMBT Enric Miralles/Benedetta Tagliabue
Edaw, London
Project Team:
Elena Rocchi
Lluis Cantallops
Fabiaán 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

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September 24, 2007





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		Miralles/Tagliabue EMBT Diagonal Mar Park Barcelona, Spain Photo courtesy EMBT Photo courtesy EMBT A Garden of a House Text by Enric Miralles “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 a direct connection with the beach, it is difficult to imagine scale is its best quality… … It is a large park which stretches out forwards to 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….” photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace photo: arcspace Drawing courtesy EMBT Site Plan Total area: 14 hectares Completed: 2002 Promotor: Diagonal Mar/Hines Architects: EMBT Enric Miralles/Benedetta Tagliabue Landscape Architects: EMBT Enric Miralles/Benedetta Tagliabue Edaw, London Project Team: Elena Rocchi Lluis Cantallops Fabiaán 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 EMBT arcspace fatures September 24, 2007