MATARÓ MARINA BARCELONA. SUPERYACHT MARINA. A SUCCESSFUL CASE OF TRANSFORMING OLD BASINS FOR NEW PURPOSES

This successful case of study is located in Mataró city, 30km far from Barcelona to the north. The city of Mataró has a marina called Port Mataró and a fishingbasin beside this marina. Port Mataró marina has over 1.000 moorings and over 7.000sqm for commercial activities. The size of the moorings are from 7 up to 18m length. The strategy of this marina wasn’t include greater moorings. Geometrically, this marina is limited. Next to this marina we can find a fishing area in clear decline: every time few fishing boats due to the retirement of fishermen, less fish captures, and an increase of the aging of infrastructures. A completely general decline. The result of all this, is that nowadays this fishing area has only 5 fishing boats of 5m length, in a basin of 12.000m2 water surface.