This workshop focused on the physical and social enhancement of the Ciutat Meridiana, a peripheral neighborhood of Barcelona that suffered the highest eviction rate in all of Spain during the financial crisis. Carried out with the support of the Barcelona Town Hall and the local municipality of Nou Barris, the workshop explored how to recycle the existing urban and architectural barriers produced by the neighborhood’s steep topography and addressed the social challenges brought on by an increasing immigrant population. Students employed a hands-on, community-based methodology, where identity, culture and spatial strategies complimented each other.