The complex is located in an irregular area of Barcelona’s Eixample, where housing and industry are combined and it adjusts to the specific volumetry approved by the City Council in 1956, which was later retouched in 1961.
The office tower, with a vertical component, is located in one of the corners of the block and is separated from the ground to mark the access. The laboratory block, with a horizontal and slightly curved composition, is set back from the street to create a parking lot protected by a small embankment. Subsequently, different extensions were made until the block was completed with facilities for industrial use.
Currently, a rehabilitation of the complex is in the making, adapting the tower to housing and the block to offices. The set’s lightness and compositional freedom are due to the use of a metal structure that frees the walls from their load-bearing condition. This effect is amplified by the treatment of the façades, covered with white limestone, which enhances the surfaces as abstract planes. The vertical guidelines of the metal pillars meet the horizontal strips of glass in the same plane.
Between 2002 and 2006, the building underwent important modifications to modify its use and house homes and offices, maintaining the volumetry and façades.
