I AM 20 YEARS OLD

Unlike buildings, a park is a project with at least 20 years to go and this is the case of the Diagonal Mar Park in Barcelona, a newly created open space that saw the light of day in 2002, although its designer and creator, the ill-fated architect Enric Miralles could not see the work completed when he died 2 years before Although with a short history of completed projects, the work of Enric Miralles was eagerly awaited by architecture lovers given its stylistic innovation from informalisme, an artistic trend that emerged as an extension and subsequent singularization of deconstructivism at the end of the 20th century. This park was not going to be alien to the expectation that the previous Parc dels Colors had already aroused, inaugurated a few years earlier in a suburban town in Barcelona and showed traces that were totally different from the traditional ones of the Mediterranean metropolis itself. From that space that 20 years ago showed all sorts of sticks planted around a geometrically irregular central lake, today the trees that were presumed in the initial project have emerged and the place is torn between abandonment due to lack of maintenance of the municipality and the little use of the place that the people of Barcelona make of it given its proximity to the beach and its isolation from it, as well as its residual location with respect to the urban fabric of centrality 20 years of life that also bring out contradictions of a design basically in plan to which the