The limits covered by this plan are the following: East alignment of Prim Street; South alignment of José Antonio Primo de Rivera Avenue to the square next to Besòs; Western alignment of the second belt of the Ronda, and Northern alignment of Llull Street. The previously indicated perimeter covers land located in the municipal area of Barcelona and a small part in the municipal area of Sant Adrià de Besòs. This last area has an urban layout based on large blocks designed as room units and has been designed to achieve an entrance to Barcelona in accordance with the importance of the city.
This partial plan was born from the need to create a large estate intended for modest housing to be built by the Municipal Housing Board, due to its special characteristics, it had to combine the following points:
a) Economy in urbanisation.
b) Consideration of the difficulty of drainage due to lack of height.
c) Union between the Poblat Dirigit part and the rest of the building that is expected to be of a higher category.
The first two points are opposed. The proposed solution is the middle ground, since the economy of the urbanisation advised to keep the same level of the land with the consequent deficiency in the evacuation of wastewater and the complete lack of drainage for rainwater. This solution, which was not satisfactory, has moved to raise the levels as little as possible to obtain a sufficient slope, so that a unitary sewer system could be built. Therefore, the levels rise by an average of one metre in the entire Poblat Dirigit area.
The game of volumes with an alternative juxtaposition of solids and voids has been the aesthetic guideline at the core of this plan. This theme is framed by series of blocks, the arrangement of which is conjugated with the previous one, although with a slight preponderance of the idea of "frame", not as an enclave of a theme, but as a finished continuity of the same.
