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The cheap houses are a set of two houses (originally three) between partitions. They consist of a ground floor, a first floor and an attic. These houses are not symmetrical, but, while maintaining the same aesthetic, each one is different.
The building on the left has a two-storey projecting body, three elongated windows on the ground floor and a three-sided tribune on the first floor. Taking advantage of the separation between the main body and the protruding part, a balcony with a brick railing has been built on the first floor, and on the ground floor it creates a small porch in front of the main door, supported by a Solomonic column made of brick. It has two roofs, one for the house and the other for the secondary body, but both are gabled with the ridge perpendicular to the main façade.
The house on the right has an entrance door on the ground floor and a double window on the right. On the first floor there is a door in the centre, leading to a small balcony, and a window on each side. In the attic there is a tribune supported by brick arches resting on brick corbels.
Both houses are plastered except for some brick elements such as the framing of the openings, the Solomonic column or the balcony of the house on the left. There are also decorative elements of white and green ceramic.
Built by the municipal architect R. Puig Gairalt between 1914 and 1915, they are the work of his youth, still strongly marked by the secessionist movement in Vienna. They originally consisted of three houses, but the one on the corner was demolished.
Gairalt designed a house that would be accessible to everyone thanks to the reduction of volumes and the use of low-cost materials such as brick instead of stone. In the 1926 Eixample Plan, he planned to design two hundred low-cost houses following a garden-city layout, such as the workers' gardens for Pubilla Casas and La Florida, which, overwhelmed by immigration, could not be entirely built.
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