26.04.2014 - 10:50
Pablo Martínez and Mar Santamaria, creators of atNight—a map of nighttime Barcelona generated from Big Data—are back with a new project together with the 300.000 Km/s collective. They’ve created Big Time BCN, an interactive catalog of Barcelona’s architectural heritage.
The interactive map lets you look up data on 70,000 land parcels and 3000 city monuments throughout the city, in order to show how Barcelona has come to be how it is after thousands of years of construction.
Big Time BCN is the first attempt to visualize the Barcelona Heritage Catalog on a dynamic map. In addition to the principal monuments, the map includes three thousand protected structures: walls, convents, residential and industrial buildings, façades, sculptural elements, urban furniture… All of these items may be visualized openly and in a flexible manner in order to “share knowledge about the wealth and importance of conserving the urban landscape”.
Big Time BCN hopes to become a reference tool for historians, designers and students since it provides remarkable historic information in an innovative and efficient way. Consultations can be made via the website and with a new mobile app developed by InQBarna.
