The project takes place in the former sugar factory integrated in the ‘Compañía de Industrias Agrícolas S.A.’ on a site popularly known as ‘Pasaje del azúcar’. In accordance with the Special Plan we drew up in 2002, which included the entire former factory on both sides of the passage, in 2008 we converted the former industrial buildings on the north side into unconventional housing or lofts. In the meantime, an area on the south side of the passage remained unbuilt, which has been the subject of the new-build office project realised in 2019.
The office project continues the urban design of the old volumes, so that the whole defines a coherent ecosystem, with its streets and buildings, a kind of more porous widening, for which a variety of volumes of different heights and floors have been built. This layout means that open and closed spaces, public or semi-public and private, old and new, coexist flexibly, like a small city within the city.
With a more abstract architectural language, the new offices create continuity with the old refurbished buildings, with a similar materiality, similar shape and arrangement of the windows on the façades, thus preserving the industrial identity of the Poblenou district in a harmonious way.
