6/13/2023 0 Comments Yolanda del rio torrent![]() The Stream Street is a type of Green Rambla that stores rain water for further uses. The Green Infrastructure has three elements: the Stream Street, the Filtering Rambla and the Farm of Sant Andreu. ![]() The streets and free spaces of the area will become a truly Green Infrastructure, energetically self-sufficient and able to close the water cycle on site. The Green Infrastructure: the productive free space Torrent Estadella Street, a former “riera”, becomes the main Green Rambla on the site. Green Ramblas add to the urban condition of the rambla the ecological rain water management function of the “riera”. ![]() The railway and the river, the historical barriers that cut off the site from the city, are turning into metropolitan parks, allowing the area to be relinked with its surroundings.The site is reconnected to the city by the Green Ramblas, a new concept of urban axis that recovers the original meaning of rambla as “riera”, the intermittent streams that formed the primeval structure of the Barcelona plain. From “Rieres” to Green Ramblas: the reconnection to the city Torrent Estadella, a centrally located but decadent and disconnected industrial area, provides a unique opportunity for a new green urban industry to crucially contribute to the city’s economic, environmental and social resilience. If Barcelona is to become a self-sufficient city with productive neighborhoods, its urban industry will play a key role.
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