IRIS OLIÉ

    My semester in Barcelona (January/June 2017) permits me to do a project on the Rio De Llobregat, a river on the south part of the city. The asignment was to connect both sides of the river. This connection would be made due to a promenade that crosses the Hospitalet de Llobregat (south area of Barcelona) untill the agriculture fields. This path should connect people and biodiversity. This promenade is precisely defined to pass through strategic points to link important activity pole. 

    One of these points is in-between the hospital and the highway. There are a lot of abandoned spaces which could be used to develop the biodiversity. It is a patchwork as stepping stones of biodiversity, with a different kind of habitat for the fauna and the flora. But this patchwork is rigorously organized in different ways for the human or for the biodiversity. 

    To permit the development of the biodiversity, six typologies of habitats are created: three for animals and three for humans. 

    humans: are without stones in the ground, more practicale. 

    animals: are with a lot of stones in the ground to find a hidden places for     the little animals. 

    With these two different kinds of ground, is declined in three typologies of vegetation: low (herbaceous stratum), middle one, (shrub stratum) highest one (tree stratum). All the plants planted are local and adapt to the place. Even if the first structure is regular, the goal is to let nature develop her where she wants and just to help her to have a place to grow in this place to develop after somewhere else.