Marti Miralles Arquitectes
DeveloperIMPSOL – Área Metropolitana de Barcelona
LocationMas Rampinyo Development, Montcada i Reixac
Project2003
Construction2007
Floor area9,111.75 m²
External consultants
Joan Ramon Soldevila (Q. Surveyor), Rafael Bellmunt (Structure), Oficina Tècnica Lluís Duart (Facilities)
PhotographyLourdes Jansana
The entire Mas Rampinyo area, in the municipal district of Montcada i Reixac, was the object of a rapid transformation into a new neighbourhood defined by urban planning. There were no significant pre-existing elements to take into account in the design of the buildings other than their orientation, the topography and the measures foreseen by urban planning.
The shape of the project consists of two separate buildings; 14 meters deep and five stories high, located on the perimeter of a trapezoidal city block and sharing a communal area in the courtyard.
The two buildings contain housing units with two, three and four bedrooms on the floors above street level and parking on the basement levels. Formal differences and differences in surface area spawn a set of solutions that take the form of one, two, three and five housing units per landing and a catalogue of housing types that diversifies the range and personalizes the different units.
Most of the properties have the laundry room in the night-time area, which means the kitchen can be ventilated directly via the facade and treated as a habitable space integrated with the rest of the rooms in the daytime area. These rooms are located on the strip adjoining the facade and the bathrooms are on the dark side of the floor, allowing flexibility in the redistribution of the spaces according to users' needs.
All the housing units have cross ventilation as they either have facades with different orientations or one facade and an inner courtyard. The terrace opening off the living room gives depth and protection to the largest opening on the facade.
The frontage of the building coincides with the edge of the plot. The varying height of the streets means that the car parking facilities, despite being underground, surface at the lowest point of the terrain. There are no commercial premises on the ground floor, but this absence is made up for by the creation of a transition space between the public and private areas that is formalized by grouping various accesses and porches in a continuous front on Carrer Consell de Cent. This space resolves the point of contact between the building and the terrain as well as the access to the communal space of the interior courtyard, which is treated as a small urban space.
On the roof there are the distribution installations for the gas supply network and the communal solar heating panels. The individual accumulator heat exchangers that supply domestic hot water are located inside each property.
The shape of the project consists of two separate buildings; 14 meters deep and five stories high, located on the perimeter of a trapezoidal city block and sharing a communal area in the courtyard.
The two buildings contain housing units with two, three and four bedrooms on the floors above street level and parking on the basement levels. Formal differences and differences in surface area spawn a set of solutions that take the form of one, two, three and five housing units per landing and a catalogue of housing types that diversifies the range and personalizes the different units.
Most of the properties have the laundry room in the night-time area, which means the kitchen can be ventilated directly via the facade and treated as a habitable space integrated with the rest of the rooms in the daytime area. These rooms are located on the strip adjoining the facade and the bathrooms are on the dark side of the floor, allowing flexibility in the redistribution of the spaces according to users' needs.
All the housing units have cross ventilation as they either have facades with different orientations or one facade and an inner courtyard. The terrace opening off the living room gives depth and protection to the largest opening on the facade.
The frontage of the building coincides with the edge of the plot. The varying height of the streets means that the car parking facilities, despite being underground, surface at the lowest point of the terrain. There are no commercial premises on the ground floor, but this absence is made up for by the creation of a transition space between the public and private areas that is formalized by grouping various accesses and porches in a continuous front on Carrer Consell de Cent. This space resolves the point of contact between the building and the terrain as well as the access to the communal space of the interior courtyard, which is treated as a small urban space.
On the roof there are the distribution installations for the gas supply network and the communal solar heating panels. The individual accumulator heat exchangers that supply domestic hot water are located inside each property.
