Moll de la Fusta-Paseo de Colón

Moll de la Fusta-Paseo de Colón
1983-1987
Presented by John Holten

The Moll de la Fusta is a name given to a stretch of port boardwalk that reaches from Portal de la Pau and the Plaça d’Antoni Lòpez. The Moll de Bosch i Alsina, which runs directly parallel, is linked to it by two railroad bridges and has been turned into a spacious promenade with seats, restaurants and an underground parking lot. This diverse and encompassing area was designed by Ignasi Solà-Morales Rubió; It has been an ever-changing stretch of land that serves as a border of the city and the sea.
Ignasi Solà-Morales Rubió was professor of Architectural Composition at the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona. He also taught at the universities of Princeton, Columbia, Turin, and Cambridge, among others. Ignasi Solà-Morales is also commissioned with the reconstruction of the German Pavilion of the International Barcelona Exhibition of 1929, and the reconstruction and expansion of the Liceo Theatre, also in Barcelona.
The initial draft proposed the conversion of an important and historical port combined with a new structure capable of solving the local traffic demands. The major obstacle was to avoid the formation of a road barrier between the city and the sea.