Sota l’ègida del feixisme vencedor del 1939, el llenguatge i la matriu dels projectes defugen les avantguardes assajades al primer terç del s. xx per abraçar patrons neoclàssics amb graus diversos d’abstracció. Pensada com a residència infantil, el 1963 esdevingué escola en una part i residència escolar femenina en l’altra. L’artefacte s’enclava amb rotunditat al pendent de la muntanya i estén un braç central per formar una “T” en conjunt. Té interès com a exemple del neorenaixentisme dels anys quaranta, plasmat en rajol i pedra artificial a la manera tan cara a la nova «avantguarda» falangista castellana, amb un cos central potent i coronat amb un gran timpà. Sobretot, però, destaca l’estructura de voltes bufades o «a la catalana», aquí d’un sol full de rajol, que Bosch aplicà metòdicament al llarg del seu exercici, seguint precursors tan rellevants com Guastavino. La reforma i l’ampliació projectades (Josep Miàs, 2007) desestimaran probablement una bona part dels espais originals.

It consists of a space with high ceilings, generous dimensions and it is presided over by an ordered series of pillars, beams and large windows which were fragmented and organised to allow diverse environments. The main element of the intervention was a partition of different heights that sought in its broken geometry the floor’s maximum stability. It was a kind of complex screen that contained windows, sliding curtains, sconces, washable plastic bands, corners, plinths and trims. This initial exercise already shows a way of doing things that will be present in many of the later works. Concern for comfort, care for the construction no matter how simple and the assessment of the place where it is intervened were the guides that accompanied the project on its way to reach a form, which from the beginning was wanted more as a consequence that as something determinant. From the perspective of this work, fifty years later it is easy to detect the cultural world from which it received so many fundamental influences. The admired Italian architects of the time were then dedicated to recovering aspects forgotten by the early avant-garde, to consequently expanding the vocabulary used by them, to rescuing ornamentation as an expression of the construction process, to considering the aging of things, to taking into account the environment as a priority... and all this was very interesting, and their works were just a few kilometers away.

El edifico de la Rambla Nova, situado en uno de los entornos más destacados del ensanche tarraconense, no muestra en su exterior la naturaleza o variedad de las funciones que alberga, de abajo a arriba: escuela, iglesia y residencia religiosa con sus correspondientes servicios comunes. La claridad compositiva de la fachada, antaño blanca e inequívocamente moderna, es una de las características de este edificio: su composición, de inspiración corbuseriana, juega rítmicamente con los huecos rectangulares mientras la monotonía del conjunto se rompe mediante grandes gestos de una escala superior. Entre ellos destacan el saliente, a modo de tribuna, de las plantas más altas –correspondientes a la residencia– con dos grandes balcones corridos, la primera planta totalmente acristalada y el zócalo, formado por una gran celosía de hormigón prefabricado y un collage en bajorrelieve del artista Carles Collet, donde la combinación de distintas fábricas de piedra nos recuerda a los yacimientos arqueológicos tan presentes en la ciudad.

La residència se situa a l’extrem nord-oest del campus de Cappont, tancant la filera d’edificis universitaris que es recolza en el carrer de Jaume II. L’edifici adopta la forma d’un braç allargat, amb un corredor central i habitacions a totes dues bandes. Per l’extrem nord l’espai de circulacions s’obre i conforma la façana que dóna al riu. La filera d’habitacions que es recolza en la façana oest segueix fidelment la corba suau del carrer i les estances se succeeixen de forma ininterrompuda. La crugia que dóna a l’interior del campus opera dues obertures que permeten l’entrada de la llum natural als espais de circulació i disposen les habitacions cap a les millors vistes. D’aquesta manera, l’edifici es configura com una resposta volumètrica a les condicions de l’entorn que es produeix amb independència a cadascuna de les façanes, assignant una orientació i una identitat formal a l’edifici.

The facilities are located on a perimeter plot of the Torregirona Garden, the headquarters of the UPC’s Rectorate. The land presents a strong downward slope in a N-S direction, and Dulcet and Til·lers Streets have a difference in elevation at the ends of the plot of 6m. The proposal is made for two different uses, the first of which will be a student residence to be carried out in a first phase and then an office building with an auditorium will be projected. The layout of the residence is executed in three wings, responding to issues of orientation and urban morphology, but also due to the need to respect the existence of a provisional pavilion of the UPC, located in the S-E part of the site, where the offices and auditorium will be placed. Wing A is aligned with Dulcet Street, in accordance with the continuity criteria of the curved building in Güell Square and the enclosure of the site. Building C is arranged according to the orthogonal relation to the Rectorate building, and building B pivots according to the dynamic view from the curve of Til·lers Avenue. Buildings A and B exhaust the permitted height of PB+3, while building C is maintained with two floors to avoid volumetric impact with the garden and the Rector's pavilion. Buildings B and C have a flat roof, while Building A has a curved roof that contains the central heating and air conditioning installations, the south-facing solar energy collector panels that produce domestic hot water and the heating. The three types of rooms form three wings joined for a central communications core, although a complementary elevator for students is planned for practical reasons. The office building is designed as a morphological complement to the residence to deal with a "staircase" problem in the Torregirona garden and the entire Pedralbes district. Its main pedestrian access to the interior level of the Campus will be related to the landscaped path that surrounds the Rectorate and where the entrance to the existing residence is also located. Here, they come together in two entrances, sharing the porch, which would provide a good entrance into the auditorium, an important piece of the program for the new equipment. The new block rotates in plan, so that, volumetrically, it has an imperative visual relationship with the one with the same number of floors of the residence, leaving triangles of green plot. With this solution, the new construction integrates compositionally with the existing one and maintains a coherent relationship with the Rectorate's garden and with the rest of the neighbouring constructions. The study of the program indicates that the four upper floors have equal surfaces and are flexible in terms of internal distribution. The building grows on floors 0-1 by locating the auditorium, changing rooms, access control and storage/archives. The location of the program underground allows the use of passive energy in terms of insulation. The composition of the constructive section of the façades is thought from acoustic and thermal comfort and, in this sense, a ventilated façade solution with solar protection on the windows is thought of, which will condition the architectural language, which once again interprets the morphology of the façades of the existing residence.