Urban experiences: EMBT. Gas Natural´s building, Santa Caterina market and Diagonal-Mar park

Abstract

The tourist route, a mass phenomenon, is a guided, partial tour (induced by someone else). The guides define what should be visited. Yet strolling the streets and discovering requires time. We are at the end of the postcapitalist period; the situationalists’ dérive, getting lost to find a new interpretation of the city are behind us. The city is planned to be visited out of our civilisation’s need to turn itself into a spectacle. This paper explores the relationship between the image of the city and the architecture, to determine what concept of city is implicit – through the architect’s eye – on the project. We based this on a study of three projects of Miralles-Tagliabue, in Barcelona, analysing the city andits transformation through the different experiences.