03.-Extra care living housing.
Fourth course.Project VIII. Downtown, Barcelona. ETSAB, UPC.Barcelona, Spain. 20112012 Professor. Antonio Gili. This project consists on a building placed on the downtown of Barcelona. It is an small solar with a lot of programme. Il has a residence for the old people, a common physiotherapy floor, a hospital and a more public entrance with restaurant and other activities that connect the guests with the city. I organize the building in two volumes, the public one and a private one. This last one has the residence above. That way I set up a hierarchy of privacy along its tour from the more public until the more private. The public entrance is between the public building and the private building. The first one has a direct access to this entrance. To get in the second one you must go over a little courtyard that is behind. Community activities are organized in two floors of the Private building, and then the residence in three floors. The residence has it is living room just where both buildings cross each other. There I offer a double high space where they have connection to both parts of the building. So there is a building that is holding on the other one, sharing the middle space in a common room.