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Multifunctional building

Housing

Fact sheet

Site: Av. del Carrilet. Hospitalet del Llobregat (Barcelona)
Client: Promo Rambla SA
Year of the proyect: 1996
Construction: 1997
Area: 13.285 m²
An intervention in a great block with urban planning done in the 70´s, 12 story towers, with two already built.
  
The project proposes a unique body starting from the 12-story height of the initial tower, on the corner of the Rambla with the Carrilet Avenue, escalates to 4 planed floors. This volume unit offers a flat and ordered façade, reclaiming the urban street condition of the old Carrilet Boulevard; on the opposite façade that looks towards the new plaza, the front is developed in a articulated manner with lower commercial and office volumes that determine a more appropriate scale for pedestrians. In this façade, the only entrance to the apartments is placed from which a vertical communications tower subdivides into horizontal hallways of access to the different flats.
 

The escalating volumes of the apartments originate a series of private terraces that add vitality and quality to the volume. 

         
General view of the propose

General view of the propose

                                                                                                                                                                                     

  • General view of the propose
  • Back facade
  • Staggered part of the tower
  • Singular corner on the Rambla
  • Carrilet Avenue facade
  • General plans
  • Longitudinal and transverse section