Location:Barcelona, Spain
Associate with LYG STUDIO

Coastal / Adaptive / Regenerative

Located along Barcelona’s post-industrial coastline near the Besòs River, Barcelona Three Chimneys Coastal Wetland Park reimagines an abandoned industrial edge as a climate-adaptive public landscape. The site is defined by three monumental chimneys rising nearly 200 meters above the waterfront — powerful remnants of the city’s industrial past and enduring landmarks within the coastal skyline.

The project transforms this former industrial zone into a resilient wetland park that responds to rising temperatures, sea-level pressure, and the lack of ecological public space along Barcelona’s beachfront. Rather than erasing the site’s history, the design preserves the chimneys as cultural anchors while introducing tidal wetlands, salt-tolerant planting, rain gardens, floodable terrain, permeable surfaces, shaded plazas, and forested public spaces.

Through these layered systems, the park becomes both environmental infrastructure and civic space. Wetlands buffer water fluctuation, vegetation cools the waterfront, and public paths allow visitors to move through, observe, and engage with ecological processes. The project positions landscape architecture as a tool for climate resilience, cultural memory, and public transformation – turning a forgotten industrial coastline into a living threshold between city, sea, and future climate adaptation.