FINAL PORTFOLIO 2019_Maria Uporova

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Connecting the Urban
Fabric. Les Rondes
The ring road was built as a part of a project leading up
to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Its main
purpose was to connect the four Olympic sites in the city.
When the ring road was built, it benefited citizens and
tourists in many ways. However, after 26 years, the ring
road has become a major cause of pollution, noise
and traffic,reducing the quality of life of citizens.
Given this current state, this project aims to reduce the
number of vehicles on the ring road and transform the
space to improve connectivity of neighborhood and
cities at a human scale.
We propose to introduce a new collective
transportation system to provide alternative
modalities of transportation. The aim is to improve the
connection between the neighboring counties and
Barcelona, and within different parts of the city with high
speed buses and last mile automated shuttles.
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