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PROJECT: HOUSING BUILDING IN HORTA (BARCELONA)
Collaborators: ANTONIO SANCHEZ-FORTUNY, architect, ARMAND MUNIESA, technical architect
LOCATION: Horta street, 215-245.
DATE: September 1997.
SPONSOR: YONET S.A.
BUILDER: PARES S.A.
BUDGET: 1.931.652,91€
BUILT SURFACE: 4.068,93 m2
The criteria followed in the project responds to the distribution of spaces and openings, as well as the treatment of facades (color and texture) and frames with a balanced composition.
One of the objectives of study was the "formalization of a new facade on Calle Horta, reformulating a new section of road to solve the urban landscape problem generated by the party wall of the building located at the corner of Calle de Coimbra and Calle de Horta.
The new building is proposed as a volume of elongated proportions giving maximum frontage to Calle Horta and the Parque de la Amistad and with a constant height to makes it appear as one unit. This height coincides with the height of the building at the corner of Calle Coimbra, to give a unified façade to the Calle Horta.
The topographical difficulties caused by the sloping Calle Horta have been resolved through the provision of a wide and uniform section of pavement, in accordance with the municipal precisions, and platform access to the housing section.
The different in levels between Calle Horta and the Parque de la Amistad allows for a car park formed of two underground levels.