For the second consecutive year, the final degree projects by students in the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture will be on display in the Oval Room of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya as part of the event “Rethinking Metropolitan Barcelona: Research and Design, Between the City and the River”, which will take place at 8 p.m. on Thursday, 23 July 2015. The visiting lecturer for the 2011-2015 graduating class is renowned architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg, the winner of Spain's National Architecture Award in 2014, who will read the paper, “The Limits of the City”.
The exhibition, “Cutting-edge Landscapes”, is presented within the framework of the agreement signed between the Catalan government and the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, and consists of the final degree projects of 30 students under the direction of architects and lecturers Alberto Estévez, Miquel Lacasta, Juan Trías de Bes, Álvaro Cuéllar and Pere Vall, along with the lecturers in technical areas. The project involved reflecting on the area around the Riera de Caldes Sur, a part of the city with large, independent, residual and largely inaccessible peri-urbanized spaces.
The students developed a single project that responds to the problems of the location at all levels, including the landscape, specific constructions, neighbourhoods and public spaces. The proposals specifically address three main topics: first, giving structure and drawing attention to independent peri-urbanized areas that have been fragmented by the strong presence of road and rail infrastructure in the area; second, the environmental recovery of the lower part of the Riera de Caldes as a new river park; and third, highlighting the positive aspects of the urban limits of Mollet Sur.
Once again, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture has assumed the role of schools of architecture to reflect on the contemporary city and landscape and has confirmed its commitment to display the work of its students outside academic circles.
The exhibition will be open in the Oval Room of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya from Wednesday to Sunday, 22 to 26 July 2015. On Wednesday and Thursday, 22-23 July, visitors can sit in on the public evaluation sessions of final degree projects at the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture.
Follow this link to see last year's exhibition: “Interactive Geographies”: Exhibition of Final Degree Projects
