Finally, a weekend without travel...and from here on out I will be spending my last few weeks in Barcelona discovering what more the city has to offer. This past Friday, our class ventured out to Rambla Poblenou. The area is an up and coming area filled with redevelopment projects and young people keeping the trendy Barcelona alive. The area of Poblenou is quite different from the Eixample, it does have the lay out of the Eixample, yet instead of dead and open intersections where the streets meet, Poblenou has elevated circles in the center of the intersections. This creates a nice progression of space and experiential walk as one walks up the street from the water toward Diagonal. The surrounding area of Diagonal, which use to be an industrial area of Barcelona is turning into an adaptive reuse area, where developers are turning these old industrial parks into new housing and office spaces, keeping much of what was left behind at the time of industry, but also introducing a great deal of new eye-catching architecture. This area will be an area to see and revisit in the next few years.
We also paid a visit to the Barcelona Botanic Gardens this weekend. Located on Montjuic, the Gardens offer a get-away from the chaos of the city life in Barcelona. The Gardens are filled with various tropical plant species laid out on a triangular grid to conform to the topography of the land. Thus, the architecture of the Gardens is informed by the topography and the triangular grid, which is imperative on a site such as Montjuic. As our final weeks come upon us in Barcelona, its time to see what the city has to offer us. We will be out and about for the rest of our stay here in Barcelona - aiming to not regret one thing we do or leave one place in the city unvisited. We have a check list to accomplish and accomplish it we will. Barcelona is our home and we have to prove it to ourselves that we know it like the back of our hand.
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