Recently, the District # 22 in Poble Nou, BarcelonaHas undergone several transformations. Apples designed by Ildefonso Cerdá as part of a new urban framework for L’EixampleWere initially occupied by industries, workshops and one other residential building. Today, most of these structures have been demolished, except for those worthy of preservation because of its uniqueness. However, the gap between the existing historic buildings has been completed by new residential areas, hotels, office buildings and equipment.
The building is located three streets: Pujades, Pamplona and Pere IV (that is different from the orthogonality of the urban plan of Cerdá, because it is a much older historical path). It is certainly a site marked by ancient irregular allotment axis obtained Pere IV. This geometry allows the project to be situated in relation to historic buildings. These are a residential building on one side of the block and on the other side of an old industrial building, built in brick and stone, which faces the street Pamplona.
The project aims rebuild the old subdivision grids obtained following the geometry of the street Pere IV. This geometry gives uneven terrain the advantage of the project go from one street to another. The building itself is organized with an optimal distance between the resulting 3 office buildings, ranging from Pujades Calle Pere IV. Elevations clearly show how this side street appears between 3 structures, like passages, allowing the transfer of light into the offices.
Consequently, the volume does not maintain a constant alignment. It features sections on the passage or street patio and in relation to existing industrial building on the street Pamplona. The project was presented as a building vertical gaps between fragmented volumes. Spatiality is broken at a point midway between the main streets, while a general axis vertical all access stairs, elevators or vertical installations.
Below ground, the building has 2 levels of parking with access by the construction industry. The structural system corresponds to a skeleton steel presents several levels of complexity. The building is presented as independent entities connected 6 via a cross passage, the location of elevators and escalators. The main beams are on the streets parallel to Pere IV, while the secondary structure follows the direction of the interior passages. Consequently, none of the matches between the profiles of steel is orthogonal.
Each of these 6 entities is composed of multiple joints or diagonal crossings steel, Making themselves stable. The perimeter consists of 3 main fronts: one to the street with 2 pillars unconventional, made with 4 thick layers of iron, other more conventional pillared facade intermediate, and finally, a facade to the pedestrian zone, where the structure falls the upper floors to release the first level for pedestrian use. Finally, has the tallest building in his last 2 levels trapezoidal cantilevered volume, as if to cover the neighboring building. The diagonal steel used to support the structure and to play a huge beam of seven feet high by sixteen feet long.
