Construction work has been tendered for a block of 64 rental homes with services at Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes with Carrer Nàpols. The building will include a new Primary Healthcare Centre (CAP) in Fort Pienc, responding to a long-standing demand from local people. Work is expected to start at the end of this year and last until the first half of 2028.
Located at Gran Via de ls Corts Catalanes, 724-726, the building will be designed by the team of architects Fabregat & Fabregat Arqtes. Abellán i Monago (UTE Gran Via) using industrialised elements in the structure and the façade to reduce the construction time and allow for the introduction of materials with a low environmental impact in the manufacturing process. As for the medical centre, the work for this will be tendered by BIMSA.
The block will have an overall built surface of 9,465,21 m2, including 2,651,35 m2 for the CAP, with the building distributed into a basement, a ground floor and six upper floors. The block will be distributed into two parts: the Primary Healthcare Centre and the homes with services. The former will be housed on the ground floor, a mezzanine floor and part of the first floor and the basement. The rest of the first floor and the other five upper floors will house the 64 homes. The block will have 8 parking places.
The floors with homes will be organised by volume around a large inner yard connecting walkways to the homes, creating a large open-plan communal space with ventilation and natural light. All the homes will have two bedrooms, 51 of them with two doubles and 13 with a double and a single. They will also have cross-ventilation and exterior balconies or terraces.
Boost for industrialised building
Barcelona City Council continues to back industrialised public housing to increase the city’s protected housing stock. In this case, the structure of the building will use concrete in the basement and in the floors housing the CAP, along with a prefabricated system for the housing floors. This prefabricated system uses precast concrete slabs and a vertical wall structure made with cross-laminated wood.
Enlargement of the public housing stock
Efforts are being made to enlarge the pool of protected public housing in the city as part of the Pla Viure. In the specific case of L’Eixample, April saw 47 flats with services for the elderly handed over at the Illa Germanetes. May brought the draw for the housing at the Illa Glòries (the largest project for protected public housing, with 238 homes), the announcement of a purchase exercising the right to first refusal to acquire a building with ten homes in C/ València, in the Sagrada Família neighbourhood, and the competition tendered to draft the project to build 54 homes with services at the former Teatre Talia, in the neighbourhood of Sant Antoni.