The Barcelona City Council is preparing the remodeling of the Sant Martí promenade, the coastline between the Mar Bella and the Forum, to turn it into a linear park open to the sea and as a climate refuge area.
The objective is to turn this promenade into a park where the green environment and comfort are promoted through naturalization.
Activities to do in the linear park open to the sea
Car-free beaches
This is the first activity of the City Council. This will speed up the completion of the waterfront redevelopment so that there will be no cars in the area.
In fact, Barcelona’ s beaches no longer have parking lots from Port Olímpic to Fòrum and they will not be reactivated this year during the bathing season.
Climatic shelter
The future park will be a space considered a climatic refuge, in order to provide thermal comfort in extreme heat episodes, a consequence of climate change.
It will have a large amount of vegetation that generates shady spots.
The area will also feature multifunctional street furniture elements, such as photovoltaic pergolas to generate clean energy or ephemeral or seasonal textile elements.
Sports
The project will also seek to open up all the sports practices that take place on the coast. The park will become a “great sports space” for the city that will allow for some 40 different sports practices over its five-kilometer length.
Sustainable park
The project will be viable and sustainable, both economically and socially. Its design will seek quality and innovation. It also hopes to “deseasonalize” the presence of people on the coast by seeking to make the area usable all year round.
