Barcelona
Carles Díaz
Andrés Monzú and Josep Palaín
María Roger and Pep Cabrera
José Antonio Acebillo, by orders of the mayor Pasqual Maragall, assigned the various projects to architects who had won the FAD awards. We all had to respect certain conditions (volumetry, exposed brickwork on façades, sloped tile roofs...) set by MBM (the Martorell, Bohigas, Mackay architecture studio). I was tasked with designing two residential blocks on the seafront, two small office buildings within the interior of the block, and the entrance pavilion to a shopping center.
A large porch unifies the two residential blocks and the entrance to the center. All the houses have terraces, which are questioned in the city due to their limited use, but fully justified here given the exceptional location: the seafront. On the side houses, between the two blocks, and serving as the entrance to the shopping center, there is a porch with a large ceramic tile roof on wooden trusses. A portion of the plaza remains in welcoming shade, as the basement below prevented us from planting trees there.
Photographs by Lluís Casals