The buildings are located on the edge of Meridiana Avenue, the main artery of the city of Barcelona. At the time when new urban planning was making its way into one of the most disadvantaged sectors of the city, housing had to coexist with industry and the railway in the La Prosperitat neighbourhood.
RENFE, with a 3,402 m2 plot of land, decides to build houses under a cooperative system for the company's employees. Ballesteros, Cardenal and La Guàrdia decide to project a set of isolated blocks, four of them in the form of a star and the rest in the form of linear blocks, of which they only get to direct the construction of two of the star towers located at the ends from the site, next to Meridiana Avenue. In a second phase, the original project was varied, and the works were carried out and directed by other architects.
With a ground floor and twelve upper floors, the blocks consist of three wings joined by a single central access. The horizontal distributors function as galleries that lead to the 79 homes with three or four bedrooms, developed in triplex with total independence from the living areas and bedrooms, and with laundry-drying racks and terraces in the living rooms.
Conventional construction based on reinforced concrete pillars and exterior brick cladding does not prevent the architects from carrying out an innovative typological solution that gives them, in turn, the advantage of eliminating the interior patios and ventilating all the rooms on the façade.
