La Catalana, Housing block

A compact structure sharing a party wall with an adjacent site, which has a different use. The building maintains the same height as the adjacent property and, as the building descends floor numbers reduces from the upper section in order to provide apartments with different aspects, sea views and balconies. At ground level, the building becomes less dense in the corner, a more human scale, improving the quality of the public space. Due to the length of the building, a new pedestrian walkway is proposed, giving access from the piazza to the river and vice-versa. On the façade facing the river, the building, through minor offsets, adapts itself to the obligatory “curve” included in the planning. This enables it to comply with the geometry and slightly interrupt the 100m-façade.