The location of this factory on the outskirts of the city allows the free arrangement of the volumes and the incorporation of outdoor space as one of the most important elements of this project. The availability of large free zones makes the volumes of the factory become visual limits rather than physical objects and a dynamic component is introduced into the outer space. The building expresses its own constructive vocation to develop its language, avoiding the widespread use of plaster that hid the construction in most of the buildings prior to World War II. The program is organised around two types of buildings. The offices are distributed along some linear buildings, made of concrete, which extend in various directions, configuring the entrances, streets and squares of the entire industrial complex, in a much more varied and dynamic way than in the traditional urban space. The workshops take up a much lighter warehouse, built with a metallic structure on which the saw teeth rest. It illuminates the interior space evenly.

This corner block is made up of three buildings between partitions and has a commercial porch on the ground floor that reinforces the unitary and compact image of a building separated from the ground by pilotis. In the upper volume, the horizontal composition of the railings, the edges of the slabs and the rectangular frame that frames the building and assumes the depth of the porch stand out. The dominant material of the façade is glass, which is usually associated with office buildings but which in this case introduces a technological component, linked to the idea of the machine for living. The author solves the ventilation through practicable windows, alternated with fixed glasses and places a series of galleries in staggered, which are used as terraces and which generate dynamism in the composition of the façade. The solar protection of these voids is resolved by tilting awnings. The material and volumetric forcefulness does not prevent this building from having a balanced scale and proportions in relation to its surroundings. The porch on the ground floor expands the space on the commercial sidewalk, while the trees on the central promenade sift and humanise the radical nature of this proposal.

The building responds to the purpose of rationalising social housing based on the Cerdà square. The standard block contains four houses, with a small open space in the middle that serves the bedrooms. Each block is clearly separated from the neighbouring block by a cut that contains the staircase and the laundry. The apartment’s main model consists of two corridors, one for the bedrooms and the other one for the kitchen and the lavatories. The complex, containing a ground floor and 5 additional floors, creates a rhythmic façade thanks to the difference in the bodies’ volumes. The project takes care of all the work scales at the same time: from the minimum housing standards to the control of the urban shape.

The purpose of this project is the construction of a Limited-Rent building, Group 1, comprising 15 dwellings on the upper floors, a commercial unit on the ground floor, and basement levels housing the building’s shared services (central heating and coal store). The ground floor also contains the residential entrance and one dwelling. The main characteristics of the building are as follows: The basement and ground-floor structure is of mixed construction, consisting of brick load-bearing walls combined with reinforced concrete columns and beams. The structure of the remaining floors is formed by brick walls and floors made up of concrete joists with ceramic infill blocks. Interior floor finishes consist of hydraulic mosaic tiles, with terrazzo flooring in the entrance hall and staircases. Walls are plastered and painted with distemper. Ceilings are finished with reed lath and plaster, painted with distemper. Bathrooms, kitchens and utility rooms are tiled with 15 × 15 cm ceramic wall tiles to full height. Sanitary fittings are first-quality porcelain. The electrical installation is concealed, run in Bergman conduit, with first-quality bakelite switches, sockets and bells. A power distribution network is also provided. Cooking appliances are of a mixed gas and coal type, except in the ground-floor and attic dwellings, which have a more reduced programme and are equipped with gas cookers only. A central heating system is installed, with boiler and coal store located in the basement. A passenger lift and a goods lift are provided, supplied and installed by a reputable specialist company. Gas and cold-water installations are concealed and executed in lead pressure pipes of diameters required by the utility companies. Each dwelling is equipped with a domestic hot water system using electric water heaters of 100 litres and 25 litres capacity (except in the attic and ground-floor dwelling, where 15-litre units are installed), with a concealed galvanised steel distribution network. In compliance with Article 100 of the current building regulations, individual mailboxes for correspondence are installed in the entrance hall, in accordance with the applicable standards. Façade openings are fitted with metal joinery, and solid wall sections are clad with high-temperature fired ceramic tiles. The building is intended for the sale of individual dwellings.