TERRADOS – Con vistas al cielo

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Final Degree Project – Spatial Design

En un mundo cada vez más abierto al acto de distanciamiento social, todos nuestros espacios públicos y privados comenzarán a cambiar de acuerdo con nuestras nuevas necesidades de seguridad y bienestar.

A veces no podremos cambiar nuestros entornos ya construidos, pero ¿qué pasaría si pudiéramos rediseñar algunos de ellos hacia ser espacios más seguros donde pasar nuestro tiempo entre estas interacciones públicas y privadas? Y, además, ¿qué pasaría si esos espacios no solo nos proporcionaran la privacidad que estamos buscando, sino que también significaran un cambio de paradigma en lo que respecta al bienestar como algo exclusivo para experimentar todos los días?

TERRADOS busca dar a los ciudadanos de Barcelona ubicaciones especiales que nos permitirán desconectarnos de nuestras rutinas diarias. Una red de instalaciones sobre las azoteas de la ciudad que mejorará lo que ya ha estado allí durante años y, lo más importante, nos ayudará a reconectar con nosotros mismos y con el entorno que nos rodea. Estos espacios albergarán una experiencia que busca crear momentos de 'estar solo en público', todo mientras juegan con nuestros sentidos a través de técnicas del diseño biofílico especialmente seleccionadas para cada instalación, asegurando así nuestra experiencia del acto contemplativo de cuidar nuestro bienestar interior.

With a world increasingly open to the act of social distancing, all of our public and private spaces will begin to change according to our new needs of safety and well-being.

Sometimes we won’t be able to change our already built-environments, but what if we could redesign some of them into safer spaces where to spend our time in-between these public and private interactions? And furthermore, what if those spaces would not only provide us with the privacy that we’re seeking, but they would also be a paradigm shift in regards to well-being as something exclusive to be experienced every day?

‘Terrados’ aims to provide Barcelona’s citizens with special locations that will allow us to disconnect from our everyday routines. A net of installations scattered over the city’s rooftops that will enhance what’s already been there for years and, most importantly, will help us reconnect with ourselves and with the environment surrounding us. These spaces will host an experience that seeks to create moments of ‘being alone in public’, all whilst playing with our senses through biophillic design techniques specially curated for each installation, thus ensuring our experience of the contemplative act of taking care of our inner well-being.

Considered location for all three designs. Calle Aragó, Barcelona.

Three installations were designed specifically for this project in order to show the many

and infinite possible outcomes this places and interventions can have.

“Puedo escuchar la ciudad y, a su vez,
la naturaleza”

Encuestada anónima

Photo series that resulted key to the project: The aim was to show the beauty of the aging of the location. It ended up defining the spaces' lighting: rounded mirrors were set up facing some of the Terrados' original walls so that during specific moments of certain days the sunlight would reflect on them and highlight elements such as the patina or cracks, thus making the visitors conscious about the act of occupying a space that was already there before them. Making the best of what already exists.

Y las ciudades crecen y aumenta la polución. A principios de siglo XX se busca aquella "montaña mágica" donde el tiempo se detiene y se puede respirar aire puro en contacto con la naturaleza.

- La Cubierta Plana, un paseo por su historia.

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'But I think this pandemic has taught us that we need more places to get away," he explained.

'City centres should not be defined by their real-estate, but rather by their real escape. By possibilities that allow us to escape to nature," he continued.

- Chris Precht for Dezeen