79 social housing units in Sant Boi de Llobregat

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Jens Richter
Juan Herreros Guerra
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Mariona Benedito Ribelles
Martí Sanz Ausàs

The programme, which mixes subsidised and market housing in an undifferentiated coexistence, demands practically the filling of the available volume according to the Ordinances. This limitation, together with the demands of efficiency and simplicity that we want to impose on ourselves, is a challenge for the development of a project with some added value.

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To this end, we seek the hidden potencies of a pragmatic proposal that is sensitive to the slightest external stimuli. We started by drawing a standard building plan of 12 dwellings. We needed to sacrifice the minimum surface area for communications, so we chose to implement a single central core equipped with two interlocking scissor staircases, two lifts and two installation cores. We will therefore have only one public entrance to the dwellings and a single centralisation of connections on the ground floor, which will have an impact on the cleanliness of the commercial space and the car park in the basement.

Environment 02 - estudio Herreros
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With regard to the dwellings, all the living rooms and bedrooms are exterior, while the entrances, kitchens and bathrooms open onto the corridors shared by each of the three dwellings. From this scheme that solidifies the available volume, subtraction operations are carried out that allow a new morphology to be carved out, generating generous collective and individual terraces and facilitating cross ventilation, diagonal views and lightening of the original density that orientates the building towards its most attractive landscapes.

West façade - estudio Herreros

The exterior façades are repetitive and closed by means of ventilated exterior industrial panel sheets in the search for a resounding and monumental image of the volume, fortunately surrounded by public space. In contrast, the façades of the courtyards and corridors have a quasi-picturesque character with latticework, tiling and ceramic tile flooring with a long tradition in Catalonia.

The Caracol building is an invitation to rethink the concept of periphery. If we are at an equivalent distance by bicycle from the historic centre, the Llobregat orchards, the beach and El Prat airport, perhaps a context in which residential blocks and industrial warehouses are confused, it is a central condition accessible to a variety of contexts and scales that are not available from the conventional centre.

Detail of façade 01 - estudio Herreros

General information

79 social housing units in Sant Boi de Llobregat

YEAR

2019

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

St. Baldiri Net y Figueres, 5/7

8830 Sant Boi de Llobregat - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.334365089

Longitude: 2.0438588176

Classification

Building materials

Unconventional materials

Ceramic

Concrete

Construction system

Reinforced concrete structural system. Ventilated façade finished in cement composite panel and natural fibres on the outside and with ceramic cladding and coloured rendering on the inside.

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

FAD 2020

ACUE 2022

XV BEAU

Involved architects

Jens Richter

Juan Herreros Guerra

Mariona Benedito Ribelles

Martí Sanz Ausàs

Collaborators

Manuel Arguijo (Structure)

Eulalia Arán (Technical Architect)

PGI (Installations)

Abraham Piñate (Project Manager)

Carmen Antón (Project Team)

Verónica Meléndez (Project Team)

Martha Sosa Días (Project Team)

Paola Simone (Project Team)

Involved architectural firms

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