NEIGBORHOOD PLAN FOR THE QUATRE VENTS SECTOR IN SANT PERE PESCADOR

Architecture and urban planning face a major challenge. How can we address the housing emergency and the needs of the newcomers who have arrived here in recent years?

  • Project dossier written in:
    • April 2026
  • Writting team director:
    • Josep Maria Fortià, architect
  • Project editor:
    • Xavier Busquets; architect, Narcís Sastre; geographer and landscape painter, Andreu Camprubí (El Risell SL.).
  • Promoter:
    • City Council of San Pere Pescador

In Sant Pere Pescador (Alt Empordà), seasonal workers who have long come to harvest fruit live in the Quatre Vents area, 1970 housing complex in precarious conditions and a neglected environment. The municipality has one of the lowest income levels in all of Catalonia.

The local council has commissioned us to prepare a proposal for the Generalitat’s "Neighborhood Plan" (Pla de Barris) initiative. We are developing a proposal aimed at upgrading the area, featuring urban improvement projects that provide quality and green spaces. The plan also seeks to connect the recently built civic center and nursery with the Quatre Vents housing blocks via a new civic axis, incorporating sidewalks, green areas, and new urban spaces.

Stitching neighborhoods back together, healing urban fractures, mending the wounds of degraded urban fabric... These are different ways to describe the valuable, meticulous, and dedicated work of those of us who intervene in the damaged neighborhoods of our cities today.