COR

LOCATION: Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Spain

The word CŎR, of Latin origin, means heart, intellect and judgment; mind, soul and spirit; souls and people; The words CŎR and CORE come together, like the past and the present. CORE means essence; heart and nucleus.

The inspiration for this project came comes from seeing Santa Coloma de Gramanet as an essence, a heart, a CŎR in which different stories of different hearts coexist. A city that unites 114 different nationalities, with these nationalities representing its essence. 

This project puts in value the heart of Santa Coloma by observing its urban morphology to be able to perceive this phenomenon in graphic form.

The spirit of a city cannot be defined only by its historical heritage alone, a city is not an inert object, nor is it the book that explains it. The city is inherently alive regardless of its temporality. A city is what it is, while never ceasing to be what it once was. Its heart is given by the people who inhabit it, and their stories, as a whole, make up the story of the contemporary city.