Central de Nou Barris refers to the nine neighbourhoods (nou barris) that comprised it in 1984 when the last administrative subdivision of the city was made. Extending out sixteen hectares, park negotiates the distance and difference in levels between the Plaça Karl Marx and the old hospital using a series of terraces divided by retaining banks linked together using ramps. The terraces, full of fields, ponds and paved areas, the park creates a triangular patterns and areas in order to cross it to connect la Guineueta and Can Peguera. The gentle slopes of the retaining banks are paved and depict the urbanised elements of the park’s landscape. An old aqueduct that used to supply water to the hospital has now become a footbridge, joining the system of ramps and steps that create different levels and connect them together. The tree cover consists of pines, with palm, olive and eucalyptus trees. Beneath the park’s surface there is a large underground tank that accumulates rainwater and supplies the irrigation outlets as well as a fountain.
At the access points and the most obvious parts in the park, there are clusters of tall vertical elements with great iconic power, the leitmotif of the intervention. These structures are made up of two wooden arms deep in the ground connected at the base of the structure but, after a certain point open out as they move upwards. They define triangular-shaped palm trees interconnected with fiber glass creating a lattice. The arms of the structure follow a curved line that gives them the flexible appearance of stalks flowing in the wind. In some cases, the curved line is very gentle and the stalk is almost upright; in others, the curve is so pronounced that the stalk is bent over at an angle of almost ninety degrees.
http://www.publicspace.org/en/projects/e182-parc-central-de-nou-barris
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