SOCIAL HOUSING TORRE BARÓ . Barcelona

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The building of 47 social housing units consisting of basement, ground floor and five upper floors is conceived as a shallow and continuous perimeter of courtyard flats that creates a central space in the form of a collective and bioclimatic atrium, which becomes a reception, relationship and meeting space for the inhabitants of the building and, at the same time, it also becomes a mechanism that provides high energy efficiency to the complex.
The Torre Baró neighbourhood, adjacent to the Parc de Collserola, originally required a terraced construction with a large number of outdoor spaces in contact with nature and the landscape, due to its rugged terrain with steep slopes.
The new building will become the final home for some of the families who have moved out of the neighbourhood, who live in precarious housing conditions but with an intense relationship with the mountain. These natural spaces are strategically incorporated, adapting them to the typology of a high-rise courtyard house. Continue reading dataAE . narch . Maira