With capacity for more than 1000 people and a functional program distributed in two towers of 11 and 18 plants respectively, it reaches up to 72m in height.
Project description by GCA Architects
The opening of the new Avenida Diagonal, beyond the Plaza de las Glories, was considered as an opportunity to endow this important route with a new continuous facade of buildings, capable of offering an iconic counterpoint, constituting the gateway to Poblenou XXI century.
Both volumes are joined by a triple height glass atrium that allows the passage of natural light to the interior while offering a cross view from the two main entrances. This space integrated the reception and itineraries to the common uses of the building. It has a continuous perimeter skylight and several circular skylights in the center, which also allow the evacuation of smoke in case of emergency. Two glass door canopies cover the circular entry and indicate the access areas.
The West tower morphology creates a gesture at the height of the seventh plant, which generates an important overhang towards the pedestrian passage and allows the formation of a landscaped roof.
In the interior, the Building integrates a complete functional program witch include uses such as a restaurant with showcooking, gym with rooms of directed activities and auditorium with capacity for about 200 people. Undeground are are 3 basement floors with parking and technical rooms. The complex has a total constructed area of approximately 28,000m2.
Each tower incorporates a compact central core that contains stair boxes, toilets and 4 elevators equipped to efficiently handle the traffic of people inside the building.
The facade system is modular and has a frame of uprights and aluminum slats that have been designed in order to fulfil a double function: interior privacy, reinforced by the use of reflective glass in the areas of vision, and sun protection, resulting in a second skin Homogenous structure that surrounds the building.
In the West tower, this skin disappears from Seventh plant, once guaranteed the interior privacy, allowing a more transparent vision towards the sea and over the city, and creating a feeling of tension in the two main facades.
The structure consists mainly of a reinforced concrete core containing toilets, stairwells and elevators; And a metal frame for the cantilevered body, which balances the structural load.
This structure has been constructed with an ascending-descending system, allowing the excavation of the basement plants at the same time as the building is constructed in height, which shortens the construction times.
For interior design, high quality materials have been used, as well as modular systems of furniture and interior division that allow to create more flexible spaces, alternating between rooms and more private offices and "open space" areas.
