The building is located on a plot between partitions, with the main façade facing Carrer Còrsega. It integrates a building of large dimensions within the urban fabric of the Eixample. To this end, we have proposed three different types of façade that respond to the different conditions of its immediate surroundings: the façade on Carrer Còrsega, the façade on the interior of the block and the façades of the hotel courtyards.

The façade is split into two planes, one of glass and the other of ceramic.

On the main façade, the openings overhang the façade plane by means of brass boxes, creating a game of light and shadow that reduces the screen effect of the building, achieving a better proportion on a city scale. In the same vein, the two large galleries are reminiscent of the skyline of the former Bayer factory.

At night, these boxes are illuminated, giving the effect that the boxes float on a black canvas. These mechanisms help to break up the longitudinal view of the façade, which occupies almost the entire block.

On the ground floor, the structure of double-height metal porticoes helps to build a base that seeks the vision of an interior garden and gives presence to the building. The façade here is set backwards, this time with the glass set back, reaching a depth of up to 1 m from the base to the top of the building.

It is a façade that recognises its visual foreshortening and emerges from this condition with the greatest possible advantage, building a façade with thickness and with shadows, which, from its complexity, in this case it allows to simplify it in order to integrate into the surroundings.

The back façade, with joinery also situated on the interior plane, generates a game of openings and groups the first two floors into a single opening to achieve greater verticality.

The hotel's interior courtyards acquire special relevance and not only provide ventilation for some of the simpler rooms but also open on to the interior distribution corridors. To resolve the possibility of visual interference between corridors and rooms, a skin of vertical diamond-shaped metallic tubes has been built that, in the manner of large curtains, resolves this problem.

At night, hidden lines of LEDs backlight the tubes, offering a suspended image of the light metallic element in front of its enclosure or courtyard façades.

One of the main challenges has been the industrialisation of any construction solution.

This is a very light ventilated façade built from large modules of almost 5x3 metres that were sold fully finished from the workshop. This solution has had many advantages, including absolute control over the finish and faster assembly.

Minimising the number of different materials (black ceramic panel, glass and brass-lined structure) has simplified not only its formal solution, but also its construction.