Rhythms at the ground plane

Authors

  • Eulalia Gomez Escoda UPC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/palimpsesto.14.4705

Keywords:

ground floor, store, Barcelona

Abstract

A straight street within the orthogonal grid like the one illustrating this article is useful to express how the stores occupying the ground level are constantly modifying their aspect and their relationship with the street. The operations of addition, subtraction and modification are interchangeable from one place to another. Each store tries to be different from the one next to it and thus to capture the attention of passersby, doing so through strategies contributing to weave the inside and the outside together; colonizing the urban space , but also widening the street and transforming the commercial activity into a collective space.

Author Biography

Eulalia Gomez Escoda, UPC

Eulàlia Gómez Escoda. Arquitecta (ETSAB, 2004) y profesora asociada del Departamento de Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio en la ETSAB. El artículo revisa parte de la investigación desarrollada por la autora para su tesis doctoral en Urbanismo “Comerç, ciutat. Paisatges arran de terra”, dirigida por Enric Serra, que se defenderá en la UPC en otoño de 2015.

 

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Published

2015-12-01