Where the city changes its name

A strategic operation that aims to extend urban activities along Barcelona’s logistic harbor, without abandoning his productive role. The recovery of an existing train station for citizen purposes becomes the key element to reactivate a forgotten area located only 300 meters away from the city center.

The fact that the city council acquired the old train Station El Morrot (2015), the abandoned warehouses and the need of optimization the Ferry Terminal become an opportunity to reconsider San Bertran’s pier as a new urban area that turns into the first step in the colonization process of the city coastline towards the West. The potential of a new train station closed to the cruise arrival area, located a few meters away to las Ramblas, along with the Ferry terminal (Sort Sea Shipping service) ensure the pier’s potential as a mobility hub. The abandoned warehouse is big enough to host a bus station and a Park and Ride space. This operation allows day to day uses such as parking service and container storage for the ferries that can still function during working hours. Furthermore, the new activities provide continuous urban activities. Through the strategic addition of specific structures at the existing buildings those programs can be added in order to transform the area. Human-scale elements that allow its users to inhabit machine-scaled structures. Small interventions take advantage of obsolete infrastructures in order to transform them through their intermodality potential.