CARRER DE WELLINGTON
Wellington street appeared on the map of Barcelona in 1886 when series of
military housing blocks were erected there as a compensation to the army, which ced-
ed land in the interior of the Ciutadella to raise pavilions of the Universal Exhibition.
Houses had a patrician facade outward and exterior iron galleries playing with military
motives (cast iron pillars, curved beams that hold up floors and railings). In 1992 rede-
velopment of the street and barracks started and more than 100 families were affected
when Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) acquired the complex, except one building that
still remains standing by the effort of one family. In spite of the abandoned state of
the buildings, inhabited floors are well preserved and back galleries with columns and
wrought iron are a small hidden treasure.
The back of the park, before the great transformation of the area with the
Olympic Games, was dark, strangled between the tracks and the industrial wall of the
avenue of Icària that until the 1992 transformation concealed the sea.
Figure 13
Carrer de Wellington
Carrer de Wellington with its unique atmosphere, textures and space relations
was a source of inspiration for conceptual framework development and formulating
the research question of the Master Dissertation project.
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TRANSPORT & DOMICILE:
an architectural intervention to integrate transport infrastructure with housing for Barcelona.
Efimovich Alina