01 LA CASA ALMACENAJEDOC 234—34/2
DEUS: 088/26812—81
REX-13: 978-0882681/283The starting point of this project is found in the TOP DOWN concept, where we work from the general (typologies: ways of living) to the particular (conditions of the place and ways of living together). The protagonist of the entire project is our case study, The Storage House, Furniture House by Shigeru Ban. This is located in Japan, and its construction system features factory-produced full-height units that function as load-bearing structural elements, and whose position defines the space. Since these units are prefabricated, the construction time on the site is greatly reduced and their profitability is very attractive.
The second part of the work consists of adapting the essence of the case study to the conditions of the place, whose location inhabits the Fontana metro station, in Gran de Gracia street, Barcelona.
The incorporation of a program facilitates the design, making a total of 2000m and 72 users (according to temporality) mandatory in the block together with common and collective spaces. The incorporation of
vertical precast concrete screens reinforces, through the case study of mobile elements, the adaptability over time and its constant exibility.