#thelatalovestory

[bunkersdelcarmel]

THE LATA LOVESTORY PART III

For our intervention we used the left behinds of the visitors, the cans and other trash, to build up a portal. With this symbol of a portal we want to show people alternative accesses to the site. There are many of them but only Marià Lavèrnia Square Street and Mühlberg Street are well connected to public transport and in a good condition.

In one afternoon in autumn at the site we managed to easily build up a big portal only out of cans that we found or that people gave us seeing our action. We are sure that during an entire hot summer day we would be able to build many more to mark every single hidden access, because...

...MORE PEOPLE -> ...MORE CANS -> ...MORE PORTALS -> ...MORE APPEALING ENTRANCES NEEDED ...to unpack the canalized flow through the few access to the Bunkers in good condition.

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[bunkersdelcarmel]

THE LATA LOVE STORY PART II

This element, the can, is made of aluminium andtherefore 100% recyclable with a basically infinite lifetime - if well recycled! (See for example the Brazilian project Can City)

The rubbish bins of the Bunkers are not divided to recycle, besides, there are not many of them in the area. So many of the cans end up on the streets, within the pretty public spaces, in front of the doorsteps of the neighbours or, carried by the onshore wind during warm days, into the neighbourhoods El Carmel and La Font d’en Fargues, right behind the Turó.

GIF by Stella-Zoë Schmidtler

[bunkersdelcarmel]

THE LATA LOVE STORY PART I

The idea that we want to transmit within our intervention is about humanity and respect towards the urban landscape. Talking to the neighbours of Marià Lavèrnia Square Street, they told us, that they are very disturbed by the mass of people that passes “their” street day by day. Especially during the warm month of summer with a lot of sun and the gentle Barcelona wind.

Looking at some examples of massification within the city like Park Güell or the Sagrada Familia one can see that the commercialization of places mostly comes neither with benefits for the place nor with any greater value for the inhabitants to counter the masses of people.

Reflecting the statements given in the documentary Bye Bye Barcelona, we saw that Barcelona hosts the tourism of consume which is about to swallow the beautiful personality of many famous places.

The same change is happening around the Bunkers. There are many people coming, internationals such as nationals and locals, which visit the site, consuming its beauty without contributing any value or content to it. The only thing they bring is a lot of rubbish. In particular the cans of beer or soft drinks, which are already kind of a symbol of Spanish public space life without spatially fixed commerce.

GIF by Stella-Zoë Schmidtler