This project investigates the rail line in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat as a potential site for public inhabitation.

Re-interpreting an existing council scheme to bury over 5km of L’Hospitalet’s rail line, the project explores the potential to concentrate the resources to establish an archipelago of 'urban civic acupuncture sites' on deliberate points along the rail.

The proposed building questions the social potential behind one of these contingent sites located in the borderspace between the neighbourhoods of Sant Josep and Les Planes. Situated atop an adjacent red-clay cliff, the architecture opens new thoroughfares, offers a series of small public services, and establishes a city archive for demolished histories.

The architecture attempts to create shared social and material moments experienced and integrated in the transitory act of commute and passage. These moments create the environments that prompt situations, opportunities, and offerings that bring people together to make sense of and celebrate the fragmented history of L’Hospitalet. It is through this daily crossing of paths that new stitches, relationships, and understandings are created.