Glòries Square is an area under permanent transformation at the core of Barcelona. Moreover, it is a gray zone where marginal actors, alternative appropriations and underground processes find ephemeral favorable conditions to arise. They involve in large majority migrants that challenge the ways urban spaces are understand and managed, paradoxically becoming a research tool for understanding and embracing blurry urban processes emerging during extensive transformations. The article explores this paradox by studying their spatial practices of domesticity. Conferenced organized by KU Leuven + European Architectural History Network + Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts + FWO ispartof: pages:127-136 ispartof: Displacement & Domesticity - Working Paper Series vol:1 issue:1 pages:127-136 ispartof: EAHN 2019 Thematic Conference: Displacement & Domesticity since 1945. Refugees, Migrants and Expats making homes location:Palace of the Academies, Brussels, Belgium date:28 Mar - 29 Mar 2019 status: Published online