The Beach learns from the self-organization and freedom of beaches in Spain. These open and public spaces are structured by intangible limits and conditioned by climate, plants or human activities. These spaces become producers of leisure and amusement. Finally, they create healthier and happier cities. This research studies how to incorporate The Beach into an urban set up.
In this case, The Beach is studied over the city of Helsingborg, with the main objective of producing leisure through an intentioned urban planning. The Beach is the factory and amusement is the product that offers to the city. This proposal was awarded in the Europan 15 in Sweden.
This research is an ongoing process in which we want to promote leisure as a key element for the well-being of cities and people. It is needed to take care of by architecture and urbanism, raising the following questions:
Are our cities leisure producers? Where are the limits of production?