The building aims to exemplify, with its construction, a sustainable, bioclimatic architecture, which avoids the excesses of consumption committed in the past, and optimises the facilities by making them more efficient and allocating them mainly to energetic efficiency.
It is located in the Eixample, in Poblenou, overlooking the chamfer, which is left landscaped. It has the shape of an almost perfect cube.
The structure is perpendicular to the street and surrounds the building: two gigantic metal screens, which fold in on themselves in a powerful truss that supports the entire building from the roof, form the northeast and southwest of it. The whole forms a C-shaped portico that only touches the ground in these two places. All the forgings are hung up on this artifice. On a ground floor of considerable height, the building has eight office-type floors linked to district 22; (company nurseries, public parts, etc.) completely transparent. The ground floor, which has the entire building suspended above it, forms an open square without a single pillar, very spectacular.
The façades are fully glazed and contrast with the structure, painted pistachio green. The east façade, the main one, which contains the access, facing Can Framis, is fully glazed and allows you to appreciate how the entire building is suspended from the upper gable. The south-west façade is protected by a plastic compound inflated with nitrogen, an active skin that responds to the climatic conditions of the environment and increases or reduces thermal insulation automatically. This skin forms the best-known image of the building, which has been named by its authors as "the digital Quarry".
The interiors present a surprising continuity and spatiality, the product of a careful design of the continuous floors, the low ceilings, the subtle and light fittings. On the upper floors, the building forms an atrium that provides cross ventilation to the offices and creates a very interesting interior landscape.
