LA SALLE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, RAMON LLULL UNIVERSITY, BARCELONA 2016/17 La Rambla del Raval Carlos Quiroz Moran I Teresa Hemmelmann TASK 2: DIAGRAMMING INDICATORS RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY HOUSING: URBAN SYSTEMS LEARNING ACTIVITY: OBSERVING/APPROACHING PEOPLE/IDENTIFYING ISSUES INDICATORS PEOPLE TRANSPORT BUILDINGS PUBLIC SPACE QUALITIES • cars outside of the rambla raval, people walking in the middle, separated by palm trees and plants -> tanquilized zone • on the weekends: marked with local food, clothes,... -> many people and nice atmosphere • multi-cultural, many immigrants and homeless people sitting on benches while talking and drinking beer (-> meetingpoint) and laying/sleeping on the floor • tourists walking through the rambla, drinking coffee in the cafés on the roadside • Metro: la rambla del raval is located between the metro stations Liceu (L3), Parallel (L2,L3) and Sant Antoni (L2) • Bus: bus stations in both ends of the rambla (120) • Car, motorbike: possibility to drive around the rambla and park in front of the houses • many shops/restaurants in the ground floors of the 4-5 storey-buildings, some facades are very old and disrepaired, some are rehabilitated • new buildings: Barceló Raval, Labor Union, ... • Inside the Rambla -> people talking, birds in the trees but also the noise of the cars driving around • Gato de Botero • benches • pedestrian zone rough bituminised, car zone flagged floor DESCRIPTION