ABSTRACT
The design of a Contemporary building Façade is a reflection to the surrounding environmental and spatial conditions. As well as following the regulations and design style of a city or a district. One of these cases are the Cerda blocks in Eixample district, Barcelona .Cerda Blocks are one of the hugest modular urban projects in the world. It has faced a lot of progress in terms of form and shape throughout the years in reflect to the evolution in population and design strategies. But at the our current time Sustainability is the approach that the world need in terms of improving quality of life for residents and decreasing the energy demand. One of the main elements to achieve sustainability of building is its façade. This thesis aims to design a Contemporary Sustainable façade in Eixample district of Barcelona in terms of getting advantage of the environmental and spatial conditions to generate power and save energy consumption .Applying this approach on 520 Eixmaple’s Cerda blocks through renovation or new construction will result in huge drop in Barcelona’s Energy consumption.
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Sustainable façade design in Eixample : A Barcelona case