Barcelona studio ON-A has envisioned a 26-hectare park in the city that would rise up to cover FC Barcelona football stadium to the west.
Named Nou Parc, as a direct reference to the Nou Camp stadium's name, the forested park would cover the venue along with the surrounding car parks and other smaller sports venues.
ON-A created the proposal to demonstrate how large areas of parkland could be introduced into cities.
ON-A proposed creating a 26-hectare park in Barcelona
"Nou Parc is a project that encourages showing how cities could be renatured without losing building space; a win-win between the private and the public," explained ON-A Architecture founders Jordi Fernández and Eduardo Gutiérrez.
"The main goal is renaturalising the city of Barcelona and then extending this model to other communities," they told Dezeen. The park would cover the Nou Camp stadium and nearby sports facilities
The park would be elevated to cover FC Barcelona's stadium, which was completed in 1957 and is currently the largest football stadium in Europe, with only the space above the pitch left open to the sky.
The elevated topography would also cover the club's nearby shops as well as an indoor sports arena, ice rink, second stadium and practice pitches.

ON-A Architecture proposes that all these buildings would continue to function underneath the forested park
"Our proposal is to define a new model of convivence between humans and nature," said Fernández and Guti...