BARCA….31 days today. I feel I have already changed the way I views things so much and I have already learned so many different things that I am excited to see where this adventure leads us within the next three months. When we got here, all we got exposed to was this beautiful narrowed, old, spontaneous city with in the city, with the Rambla as its main principal corridor. All the others streets just randomly exposed you to a number of unexpected hallways, still to this day 31 days later, I still feel like I could get lost within this Cuitat Vella for years and not have a problem. Is beautiful that we get the chance to not only live but also study with in this fabric.
To me the most interesting part about Barca is the continuous relationship between the old and the new, that even the city grid upholds, and so it becomes the most important piece of architecture itself. This city of so much history becomes its best graphic representation of the mingling of eras that we are continuously exposed to. Even the building that studio is in, holds this tension, where the old instead of being covered up, or demolish; is accentuated and made a major component of detail work within. I have been truly inspired to be studying here, where architecture matters, where is intertwined with the city itself and its people. Everywhere you look or everywhere you go, you see it in the side walks, the lamp posts, the railings, the tiles, the stones, the buildings, the parks, the public spaces, the streets, the grid, the city, everything is so fascinating. Everything is a composition where there is not only a beautiful building standing on a piece of land, but a building within a fabric, with its own history, within this constant flux of people, the air, the movement, the smell, the music it all comes together and every time just catches you by surprise. I am still bewildered by this place.
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