The agricultural landscape, areas of crops and stream-bordered orchards of Sant Cugat del Vallès were preserved right until the end of the last century. The Volpelleres forest, despite its newly acquired urban identity, is actually a fragment of forest. It is in the vicinity of the stream where the riverside vegetation of great ecological value is concentrated, which we find in the heart of the Volpelleres forest. Over time, the lands previously occupied by crops have been incorporated into the original arboreal area, the result of an expansion of forest principally formed by pine trees.
The forest and the path that runs through it retain topographical and vegetative characteristics that move them away from the conventional image of an urban park and bring them closer to that of a mountain path. This character is the reason that the project is focused on preserving the identity of the forest, carrying out minimal actions that increase its accessibility and improve the service to its urban environment with different treatments on the existing paths and limits. In this way we achieve an accessible circuit of 1,500m inside a forest environment
Team:
Authors: Hiha Studio (Bernat Ardèvol, Genis Plassa&Jona Oliva)
Collaborators: Josep Serra, Alba Santaló
Consultants: Ardèvols Consultors Associats (building engineer), Sorigué (builder)
