Flux-House, 111 apartments block in Barcelona

80, Carrer de Guipúscoa, Terrassa, Spain

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Flux-House, 111 apartments block in Barcelona

80, Carrer de Guipúscoa, Terrassa, Spain

Firm

Flores Prats Architects

Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

YEAR

2010

SIZE

1,000,000 +

BUDGET

$10M - 50M

A FLUX-HOUSE.

Considering the house as the first nucleus for a social life, we have organised one entire city block in aim of giving social organisation by the ensemble of all these units. The social part of the houses faces an interior courtyard: the building does not just respond to the sun, but also to a SOCIAL COMPROMISE that led us to face all the living areas of the flats towards a communal central space.

The apartment aims to LEAVE OPEN as much space as possible, just closing one bedroom and a bathroom. Then it is a house with two doors. The rest of the house can be used in continuity, from one end to the other, from the street to the courtyard fa?e.
All the flats have a terrace towards the central courtyard, so one can have lunch or tea there, and use it for flowerpots or socialize with neighbours during many months of the year. In this way, the flats can have both a VIEW OF THE STREET AND OF THE COURTYARD, all with good cross ventilation.

A CENTRAL FURNITURE INSTALLATION organises all of the house. It is built so that it does not touch the ceiling and therefore becomes something light, which allows one to surround it and see over it. This central furniture is the CORE and DIRECTS THE HOUSE around it. It is the place for all the domestic machines that help us in our daily duties: kitchen, fridge, washing machine, dryer, dishwasher?
In this apartment ONE ACTIVITY BECOMES THE NEXT, and this one the next? a constant developing from one activity to another. The house moves fluidly from the more private to the more public parts, from the bedroom to the terrace. A FLUX-HOUSE LEADING FROM THE PRIVATE TO SOCIAL AMBIENCE.