passeig de maritim de la barceloneta

1992-1996 public space
jaume artigues, jordi heinrich, miquel ros, olga terasso, ana casteneda.



PREVIOUS STATE
The district of Barceloneta appeared in Barcelona in the second half of the eighteenth century with the partial demolition of the old shoreline district of La Ribera thanks to the construction of a citadel. In order to re-house the affected families, the military planners constructed a new residential area on a regular strip of land obliquely oriented with respect to the sea. In the first third of the nineteenth century, Barceloneta became one of the city's main leisure areas with its public swimming pools, snack bars and restaurants, but the continued and spectacularly increasing population density of the district and the occupation of the beach by a number of factories and port installations gradually brought about a change of image in a sustained process of decay.

The sea front of the district was dominated for more than thirty years by a promenade constructed in 1959. Its concrete structure was very badly conserved and, since it was higher than the level of the residential area, relations between the two elements were very deficient, and Barceloneta's relation with the sea was obstructed. In 1994, with the application of the Law of the Coasts, one of the city’s most popular leisure spaces underwent a metamorphosis, with work that began on remodelling the sea front promenade as part of an operation of transforming and regenerating the shoreline that also involved redefining the built-up face of the sea front.
Where to find:
passeig de maritim de la barceloneta
Metro: L 4 Barceloneta