EI05 Tower, 2005-2010
fgc Europa / Fira
Carrer d’Herrero, 24 | BCN8
Tall buildings are not generated necessarily by the recognisable superimposing of units of floors, homes or windows. We have tested the grouping of the openings and the breakdown of the façade every three floors, imagining the tower as a result of 5 levels instead of 15. With this procedure, we rescaled the tower, which is visualised as a transition between the new Gran Via profile, due to its total height, and the consolidated city in the surrounding area, formed in the main part by 5-storey blocks, thanks to its perception as an object in 5 parts. The 7,600 m2 of buildable housing space are accumulated over floors 2 to 14, leaving a large space in the lobby of 2 and 3 storeys in height. This part, generous in volume and sober in measurements and finishes, ends up being an interior street with accesses from the two end-points. The floors can be easily transformed by users (dividing walls mounted on jointless flooring), with the exception of the articulated perimeter of the façade and the technical cores of the homes
Roldán+Berengué, Arqts
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