This house is a complex of 84 dwellings, of a simple standard and affordable for those on low incomes. The dwellings, which are all very similar, have a surface area of around 70 m2 and consist of three bedrooms, a bathroom, a living room, a kitchen with a small dining area and a terrace with a laundry area and clothesline. The house is built on a plot located on the western edge of Terrassa. It occupies half a block and is bounded by Avinguda Ángel Sallent to the west, where it has a façade of around 80 m, Carrer Antonino Pío to the south, neighbouring properties to the east and Carrer Blasco de Garay to the north. Its urban classification provided for the construction of a closed block. However, given the size of the plot (2,300 m²) and the fact that it occupies half a block, a request was made to the City Council to construct a single, independent building. The solution, which does not reach the total buildable area, attempts to resolve the following problems with the minimum loss of buildable volume: the following problems: the correct relationship between the new building and the other buildings on the block, the unity of the building despite the different regulatory heights attributed to the three streets on which the site faces, the fusion of the attic into the body of the building without any setbacks, the integration of the spaces outside the building (streets and interior of the block), and the integration of the building into its urban context. The shape of the site and its dominant dimension along the façade on Av. A. Sallent, an important and wide road, suggested a linear building. Thus, columns of superimposed dwellings are juxtaposed in parallel bays from Carrer Blasco de Garay to Carrer Antonino Pío. The load-bearing walls separate the dwellings and facilitate their opening to the west (street) and east (inside the block). The linearity of the building was also the best solution in terms of orientation. Access to the different dwellings is via gallery corridors located on the interior façade, which are reached by three vertical staircase and lift access points, one at each end, next to Antonino Pío and Blasco de Garay streets, and the third towards the centre. These corridor galleries provide a double interior façade solution which, while creating a richer and more ambiguous space in the area of visual contact with the other buildings on the block, also provides a living area, immediate expansion of the dwellings and interaction between neighbours. The building is also separated from the neighbouring buildings at its north and south ends, so that the free interior space communicates directly with the streets. This is the direct access to the stairwells and lifts. This penetration of the street into the interior is explicitly accentuated by the large opening that leads into the building, even for vehicles, from Avinguda A. Sallent.
Instead of being on the official alignment of Av. A. Sallent, the building is set back 3 m to place it on the plane of the attic and absorb it into the linear unity of the whole complex. This displacement of the alignment suggests the creation of a space in front of the building, which is specified and formalised by the successive setbacks of the bays in the part of the building closest to Carrer Antonino Pío. This movement in the floor plan is related to the succession of different heights, which begins with five floors next to Carrer Antonino Pío, reaches a maximum of nine floors in the centre of the west façade, and decreases to seven floors next to Carrer Blasco de Garay. The double-pitched roof, with a single slope, according to the basic N/S direction, adapts seamlessly to the number of floors in each bay and is one of the most significant elements of the building due to the unity it achieves. In addition, its sinuosity defines a contour without rigidity that establishes a spatial communication without breaks with the rest of the buildings in the area, which are lower due to the height regulations of the streets adjacent to Av. A. Sallent and highly fragmented due to the type of land division. The house is built according to the traditional system of load-bearing walls, exposed brick enclosures and Arabic tile roofing. The west-facing façade, where all the rooms open, is protected by rope blinds, which are essential due to the orthogonal summer sun.
