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Residential architecture and the city
Carlos Ferrater
This chapter addresses the issue of multifamily housing, showcasing two buildings simultaneously over time that respond to different typological programs, small apartments in the case of the Vertix Diagonal Building, and larger-scale housing in the M3 Building in Plaa Lesseps. Two spaces undergoing transformation in the city of Barcelona, the first on the recently created Diagonal, and the second in an area that has gone through many changes in recent times.
Vertix Diagonal building
M3 Lesseps building
Both buildings pose questions that deal with the construction of the city, defining urban areas from the architectural project, while raising substantive issues on typological diversity and the construction of flexible and lightweight faรงades that encompass sustainability, environmental control, and Mediterranean traditions.
Sketch for Vertix Diagonal building