Zaga Arquitectura . photos: © Milena Villalba
Right next to La Floresta School, in an area of outstanding natural value bordering the wooded mass of the Parc de Collserola, there is a building that was originally used to house the teachers who worked at the school. This place was popularly known as Les Cases dels Mestres. The building was constructed in 1969 and designed as a typical low-cost housing development. These buildings, severe and honest, responded to some standard features: simple and unprejudiced volumetrics, slightly traditional language, very short structural bays, and rational and limited-cost construction methods. The houses lost their raison d’être, and the dwellings fell into disuse. Despite this, they remained present in the population’s memory, and decades later, a neighbourhood movement has managed to rehabilitate it for use as cooperative social housing. Continue reading Zaga Arquitectura
