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Urban Nests

This is a project by Dom Arquitectura and it is located at Barrio de Gracia, Barcelona, Spain. Project's program: Urban landscaping. There are six images for Urban Nests.

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Project details

Project name: Urban Nests
Location: Barrio de Gracia, Barcelona, Spain
Program: Urban landscaping
Year: Completion: 2012
Project by: Dom Arquitectura
Team: Design Team: Mikel Elorduy, Blanca Elorduy, Pablo Serrano

Project images

Designer's statement

One day someone made a wall, it was cold, sad and dead, over time, the sparrows made it its home.

They lived there, raising, flying, singing, and the wall became something joyful and full of life!

But one day, someone decided to restore the wall, and plug all the holes where the sparrows lived. Wall turned gray, cold and sad!

Then we showed up, and decided to put colored nests where where there were holes, and asked the sparrows to come back, and they did come back!!

We give them the nests, they give us everything else, and the city appreciates it!

Material: We have use handmade wood nests painted with ecological paint. We thought the composition with three natural colors (green, yellow and brown) gives the wall an appearance of nature.