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1. Botanical garden of
Barcelona

2. Concept:
1989
Design Development:
1995
Construction:
1998 - 1999
City:
Barcelona
Budget:
10.8 M. €
Area:
14 Ha
Architects:
Carlos Ferrater
Beth Figueras
José Luís Canosa

3. The architect
Carlos Ferrater
- Born in 1944
- established the Office of Architecture in
Barcelona (OAB) in 2006
- Focused on colors, details and “geometry as a
mechanism for creating a harmonious
relationship between natural and artificial
elements”
- "the architect’s task does not lie in concepts or
obvious style but in his response to landscape
and urban conditions"

4. • In the north side,
between the Castle and
the Olympic Stadium
Lluís Companies, on land
with steep slopes.
Its shape resembles a
large amphitheater facing
southwest overlooking
the Llobregat river, the
Olympic Ring and part of
the urban area
of ​​Barcelona.
• Approximately half of the
area of ​​the Botanical
Garden belonged to a
landfill with the depth of
20 meters, and the other
is mostly high hills with
slopes up to 30 percent.
Site status

5. keywords
1. Grouped Mediterranean climate
2. Harmony with nature
3. Triangular grid
4. Faceted elevations
5. Strong contrast

6. 1. Grouped mediterranean climate
• The garden need to include 71 main plant families of Mediterranean
flora and other zones with the same climate around the world.

7. The layout of the garden need to be arrange base on the
ecosystem in it own climate, make the garden a high
scientific value tool in sorting, observing, maintain and
research Mediterranean plants.

8. One of the consideration the architect take to consider is to highlight the shape of the
new landscape.
2. Harmony with nature

9. It was also necessary to take advantage of the natural relief and thus avoid major
earthworks.

10. 3. Triangular grid
The architect prompted an idea of placing a triangular grid over the site
to adapted to the terain, and integrated with the landscape

11. This idea became the basis of a multiple level system, in which seprate the different botanical areas with
different size and height of plots.

12. Not only the concept of triangular grid apply for the plan, but also the facade

13. 4. Faceted elevations
• Between the triangular grid apply on the site, a fractal geometry was
used in the garden to create a zig zac pattern to slow down the
walking speed of visitors, make the experience more relax and calm.

14. It also break down the grid and bring out the shape of the landscape and separate the pieces, achieving
singularity and a sense of variety in the slope and orientation.

15. 5. Strong contrast
The contrast between
the manmade
structures, roads and
walls and the wild,
natural plants were
ballanced.

16. The strong contrast between marterials use for the roads and the walls highlight the shape
of the garden while remaining seemingly “natural”.

17. Wall structure
Corten steel wall structure to with the water discharge pipes to prevent the the
rust from affecting the pavement

18. EXPANSION GATHERING STEPS

19. Barcelona Botanical Institute

20. Construction time:
2001 – 2002
Architect:
Carlos Ferrater
Collaborators:
Joan Guibernau
Elena Mateu
Located at the
uppermost area of the
Barcelona Botanical
Gardens on the
Montjuïc mountainside.
A center dependent on
the Higher Council of
Scientific Research

21. Barcelona Botanical Institute floor plans

22. Building section

23. Both the front and the back of the institute have been designed with contrast and materials

24. Pictures of the institute:
• Auditorium
• Exhibition hall
• Scientific lab

25. Barcelona’ Botanical Garden maintenance building

26. Construction time:
2012 – 2015
Architect:
Carlos Ferrater
Nuria Ayala

27. Starting out from the Barcelona Botanical Garden’s actual requirements, from the extending of the Seedbank and the
reorganizing of the workspaces, the architects proposed a colonize Semicircle built over the irrigation-water deposit

28. maintenance building plan, build over the water deposit as a semi circle to preserve
the rounded outline of the landscape

29. Barcelona’s Botanical Garden Interpretation Center

30. Architects
Carlos Ferrater
Nuria Ayala
In progress

31. Concept sketch
model
A pavilion in which many different services will be provided.
The building function as a Visitors’ Center in which visitors
learn about the space they are about to visit, the idea behind
the garden, the characteristics of the Mediterranean climate,
and the plants that have adapted to it, plants from all over
the world.

32. The end