How does a world-class shopping destination integrate into one of Europe’s densest urban grids without destroying it? This project interrogates Barcelona’s proposed destination mall near La Sagrada Família — originally conceived at 150,000m² with 6,000 car parking spaces — and redefines it as a 100,000m² precinct with radically reduced vehicle dependency. Through a three-pillar spatial methodology examining urban opportunity zones, social infrastructure conflict, and multimodal transport connectivity, we identify sites where commercial scale and neighbourhood liveability coexist. The result is a mall embedded within a redesigned mobility network — not a car destination, but a people-centred precinct.
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