The Taller de Arquitectura’s first experience of urban design on the
grand scale. The commission called for the construction of a very
economical, low cost residential development aimed at alleviating the
housing shortage created by the influx of large numbers of immigrants
during the 60s, in terms comparable to those of innumerable projects
elsewhere which resulted in uninhabitable peripheral suburbs. The basic
premise was to steer clear of the dormitory-suburb model, by means of a
wealth of shops, bars, leisure facilities, supermarkets and large public spaces. The inclusion of the greatest
possible number of services was to lead to the creation of a city within
a city, thus minimizing both the need to commute in and out and the
marginalization of the new neighbourhood.An attempt was made to
reproduce the atmosphere of communication fostered by the urban network
of long-established towns, creating three interdependent road systems.
The principal network consists of major peripheral expressways for
high-speed traffic. The secondary network is for slow-moving vehicles,
public parking and pedestrians, while the third system is exclusively for the use of pedestrians.The housing in the Barri Gaudí
development is concentrated in eight-storey towers, which communicate
with each other by means of four-level constructions that permit
pedestrian circulation between the different buildings by way of the
terraces, making it unnecessary to descendto street level. The north-facing spaces are primarily used for
circulation, thus leaving the sunnier spaces for housing, in particular
for living rooms, balconies and terraces.The scheme incorporates
various house types, with two-, three- and four-bedroom modules. The
need for different floor areas and the permutations in the disposition
of the apartments around the communications core led to the creation of
eight different house types: nowhere in the scheme are there two adjoining houses of the same type, not even vertically.The
system of construction employs a concrete structure with brick
cladding. The economic constraints and the lack of available technology
prevented the general use of industrially produced construction
elements, although where these were tried the results were found to be
very positive, and are clearly visible in the completed scheme.

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