Hotel Callecita
Barcelona studying abroad senior capstone project
The project aims to create a dialogue between the boutique hotel and the district of Eixample by activating the neighborhood and improving Cerda's original city planning. Since the site is fragmented with broken blocks, people cannot experience what Cerda intended to do. My first strategy is to place a street in my hotel to mimic that missing space; thus the project is called "Hotel Callecita" (small alley). Once the relationship between the hotel and the block has been established, I shifted the scale and tried to connect the adjacent parks, which now the scope involves two blocks in the perimeter. I thereby placed another street intersecting with the first one to create a both visual and physical linkage to the parks and the hotel.