216 subsidised housing units on the Autonomous University of Barcelona Campus

Bru Lacomba Setoain (1)
Bru Lacomba Setoain
Eduard Bru i Bistuer

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's heritage is its mixed character between urban and suburban implantation. The extension of its student housing fully participates, due to its location, in this situation: it continues the campus on one side and faces the Vallès landscape on the other.

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Jordi Bernadó

In response to this determining fact, the building seeks to culminate the urban implantation of the pre-existing residence, configuring a square that is to become the civic centre of the complex, while at the same time overlooking and embracing the valley of Sant Domènec. The basic typology - corridor and rooms - folds into different forms to perform this dual role, adjusting to the weather, the topography and the vegetation (no trees have been touched).

Jordi Bernadó
Jordi Bernadó

The main entrances are in the square, where the landscape breaks through the main volume. Each turn is an opportunity to link the urban and natural environment, and to penetrate the specific accesses for each volume of the building. At first glance, the building complex does not necessarily seek to differentiate itself from the existing architecture on the site, whether discreet or mediocre. It even dyes itself - curtains, door jambs and fire escapes - in the colours it finds there.

Bru Lacomba Setoain
Bru Lacomba Setoain

Every exception, however, every break in the volume, every contrast between materials depending on the side - very artificial (prefabricated) or very natural (wood) - is an opportunity to organise a specific form of occupation of space that wants to explain and intensify the experience of living in this place.

Jordi Bernadó

General information

216 subsidised housing units on the Autonomous University of Barcelona Campus

YEAR

2009

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

St. de la Vila,

08193 Cerdanyola del Valles - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.498972365

Longitude: 2.0965572103

Classification

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

XI BEAU

Involved architects

Eduard Bru i Bistuer

Collaborators

Josep Muñoz (architect)

Involved architectural firms

Bru Lacomba Setoain

Website links

Bru Lacomba Setoain

XI BEAU

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