8. Placa de Glories



2022, IAAC Barcelona              
Professor Oana Taut              
Group Work              
Partners: Ella Larkin + Ethan Manister              


Design Vision


This project is sited in Barcelona, Spain, and focuses on circulation as a sequential timeline of experience. By flipping a building on its side, you can start to read the circulation and egress as a timeline along the X-axis. Our team invented a way of diagramming this “timeline” so that we could analyze architectural elements which might inform an occupants experience. Some of these variables included floor area, enclosure, visibility, and movement. By diagramming in this way we were able to find unique data which was used with parametric scripting to produce optimized plan diagrams for each level of the sports center. These concepts were then further iterated and designed with considerations of site and historical context to produce our design for a new recreational sports facility in Placa de Glories in La Eixample, Barcelona.



Placa de Glories Context Plan
Floor Plans
Circulation Axonometric

Accordion Timeline