Hecho de fragmentos: reinterpretación de los componentes de un eje urbano en Barcelona

Abstract

When the existing urban fabric is an arrangement of fragments that are joined together by their proximity or neighborhood, the axis that joins them, allows, through it, an efficient reading of all its components. In Barcelona, at the same time that the city started to build the “Eixample”, there were on the territory some peripheral towns that were forming a crown around the planned city. To the west, the towns of Hostafrancs, Sants, Les Corts and Sarrià made up an imaginary axis that at the same time that the city was built it would also be consolidated. This paper aims to conduct a study of the axis configuration, recognizing in their fragments, the morphological conditions that shapes it, analyzing them not only as isolated entities but as elements that make up a whole, that relate and articulate between them, and highlight those essential attributes of each urban piece that allows a reinterpretation of the axis composition.