Ideas, strategies and projects that give rise to pilot projects. They tackle the challenges raised by the stakeholders involved and which are found in particular places in Barcelona or Medellín.
Cities Connection Project (CCP) is a connector of cities through architecture, created by the architects Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos, in order to generate synergies between architects, cultural agents, governments and universities in various European cities.
A series of architecture exhibitions are at the centre of this project which also includes talks, encounters and meetings between universities and the desire to create links between the architects involved. Each event, called a “Connection”, comprises a twofold exhibition in Barcelona and in the guest city, with a total of 20+20 projects.
Barcelona is a name known the world over. Some of the fields that have contributed most to this name are architecture and urban design. To speak of the Barcelona model is to speak of a very personal way of seeing the city. The Olympic Games and Forum 2004 were the banners of a major urban restructuring. The city’s revitalization has boosted its Modernista treasures, led by an imaginative and timeless Gaudí. The creation of its own language is based on forms of public space that are committed to the city.
Another pillar of the Barcelona model is the quality of its housing. The optimization of typologies, especially social housing developments, owes much to great Catalan architects from the 1930s up until the present day, such as Sert, Bonet, Coderch, Mitjans and Barba Corsini.
Now, a young generation of architects has chosen to work with new public housing programmes, taking the issue to an extreme to respond to new social and urban demands. Many of these projects have developed new typologies and technologies, and proposed different ways of integrating public space, thereby salvaging urban synergies that have been overlooked, especially during the years of the property boom.
For this reason we think it is important to display these housing projects, which are interesting for their typological development and for their commitment to public space and the construction of a Barcelona that is constantly evolving.
