Circled numbers identify landmarks; numbers inside towers show storeys.
1 · Hospital de la Santa Creu2 · Gran Teatre del Liceu3 · La Boqueria4 · Palau Güell5 · Sant Pau del Camp6 · Drassanes Reials7 · MACBA / CCCB8 · Betlem / Palau Moja9 · Sant Agustí Nou10 · Santa Mònica / Teatre Principal
Housing capacity, with assumptions visible
Existing residential units (2022 estimate)
Municipal 2023 profile · historical proxy, not a verified 2026 inventory
Modelled new homes
New buildings only; retained homes not counted
New capacity minus the 2022 baseline
This is a capacity estimate, not a verified dwelling schedule. A final total would add homes retained in the terracotta areas. The model excludes six floors per tower and two floors per frontage or mid-rise block from residential capacity; it also applies an 85% residential share to the remaining frontage and mid-rise floor area.
¹ The comparison uses the approximate 2022 baseline. It is not a verified net increase against today’s housing stock.
Land allocation
How to read this first concept
A central park and connected park spine. Park totals include paths and landscape land, and exclude streets, civic sites and private courts.
Ten terracotta ensembles retain selected landmarks and their associated courts. They are not a complete heritage inventory.
Nine purple plots reserve land for schools, nurseries, elder day-care, clinics, libraries, community centres and sports. Final uses remain unassigned.
33 towers of 45–70 storeys, with 8-storey frontages and 16-storey housing blocks. Wind, daylight and feasibility remain untested.
The 97.1 ha urban-core study area excludes the port. Both maps use the same scale, with north up.
Outside the retained ensembles, the concept generally replaces the existing fabric. Retained homes are not yet counted; neighbouring districts remain outside this proposal.
Geometry retrieved 2 October 2026. Areas are calculated in ETRS89 / UTM zone 31N (EPSG:25831), within the clipped urban-core study boundary. The map is not a cadastral survey. Existing green mapping is incomplete; street trees are not inventoried.
The existing proposal uses ≈23,400 residential units derived from the profile’s 2022 data. This historical proxy is not a verified current inventory or an occupancy count.
New homes = modelled residential gross floor area × usable-area efficiency ÷ average usable dwelling size, rounded down to 100 homes. The tower figures include their associated frontages once. Civic reserves and retained buildings contribute no homes to this calculation.
Land and retention assumptions
The allocation uses the proposal’s area totals. New building footprints include towers, frontages and mid-rise blocks; courts, setbacks and other open land form the remainder. Terracotta areas retain selected ensembles and courts, not a verified legal protection boundary. A full heritage and parcel review could change the proposal.
Before a developable plan
The buildings, park boundaries, indicative 18 m streets and civic reserves are design assumptions, not an adopted plan. Wind, daylight, transport, utilities, fire access, construction phasing, rehousing, affordability and civic service capacity require further study. No percentage increase in green space is claimed because the existing inventory is incomplete.