The building recovers the former grounds of the Gas Company, which has been converted into a park presided over by the new headquarters. The new tower is decomposed into four well-differentiated bodies, with the aim of assuming its uniqueness and establishing a dialogue with the elements of the environment: the passage of the coastal belt, on one side, and the low houses on the other side. These four volumes have a name that identifies them: the tower is the tallest, H-shaped volume, formed by the union of two narrower bodies of different heights. The bracket is a body attached to the tower that, through its lower surface, marks the entrance to the entire building. The aircraft carrier is a long, low, cantilevered body that restores the tower’s ladder horizontally and faces the entrance, along with the corbel. The fourth body is the waterfall, a volume attached to the ground with a stepped façade that restores the staircase of the surrounding buildings. All four bodies are articulated as parts of the same conception, and the glass enclosure of each part collects the shadows of the neighbouring bodies, in a game of transparencies and reflections that give rise to an unreal and dematerialised image.

The buildable volume, the unique character of this new building and its relationship with the urban periphery make the new Gas Natural office building one of the contemporary buildings that have begun to appear on the city’s landscape.

However, this does not mean that the new building does not have a clear desire to be compatible with its urban environment; the small staircase in the Barceloneta district, the surrounding houses and the park.

It has the verticality of an office tower, while at the same time it offers an entrance that shows its representative character with a quick view of the interior.

That is why we have made a proposal where the interest lies in the fragmentation of the buildable volume in a series of constructions that in the end form a unified volume, which responds to different scales and in clear relation to the nearby residential buildings. Through the formation of a large door that allows the opening of the Barceloneta neighbourhood and a unique public space in relation to the ground floor, to form an urban landscape of different dimensions...

The treatment of the façades follows a similar criterion... A series of large windows create interest in the vicinity, while an indifferent volumetric treatment protects the building from the sun and noise and shows a series of abstract volumes that confuse it with the other buildings along the periphery.