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Illa de Cases Pallars
Description:Esbós d'Oriol Bohigas dedicat a l'Heliodoro Piñón, arquitecte.
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- Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola
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- Esbós
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- Paper Fotogràfic
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The building responds to the purpose of rationalising social housing based on the Cerdà square. The standard block contains four houses, with a small open space in the middle that serves the bedrooms. Each block is clearly separated from the neighbouring block by a cut that contains the staircase and the laundry. The apartment’s main model consists of two corridors, one for the bedrooms and the other one for the kitchen and the lavatories. The complex, containing a ground floor and 5 additional floors, creates a rhythmic façade thanks to the difference in the bodies’ volumes. The project takes care of all the work scales at the same time: from the minimum housing standards to the control of the urban shape.
It was a matter of designing and building a group of very economical houses, based on the strict reality of the 1950s: accepting – and taking advantage of – the low levels of construction techniques and trades, the expressive neutrality of the urbanism, the low social and economic power of recent immigrant users with low standards of comfort, and rental prices conditioned on the salaries that users received in the factory promoting the operation. It was, above all, about not getting one’s hopes up with the idea that the solution of mass housing forced the invention of new types of modules and new construction systems focused on industrialisation utopias. Load-bearing walls built of brick, small light windows, concentration of services, sloping tile roofs, stairs with continuous walls and concrete slabs. An urban form with a closed block and a continuous construction. In general, minimum services, less than most regulations require today. In short: a poor architecture that uses poverty to open a new aesthetic line and to assert in a protestant tone that if social emergencies do not have a research apparatus at their service (expensive and full of hardships) can only find temporary solutions in the use of landscapes and contents – urban or suburban – which, if we spoke in operatic terms, we could almost call “veristas”.
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Pallars Residential Street Block
Oriol Bohigas i Guardiola, Josep Maria Martorell i Codina
The building responds to the purpose of rationalising social housing based on the Cerdà square. The standard block contains four houses, with a small open space in the middle that serves the bedrooms. Each block is clearly separated from the neighbouring block by a cut that contains the staircase and the laundry. The apartment’s main model consists of two corridors, one for the bedrooms and the other one for the kitchen and the lavatories. The complex, containing a ground floor and 5 additional floors, creates a rhythmic façade thanks to the difference in the bodies’ volumes. The project takes care of all the work scales at the same time: from the minimum housing standards to the control of the urban shape. -
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Award-Winner / Winner. Category: ArchitecturePallars Residential Street Block
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Illa de Cases Pallars
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