85 Social Dwellings in Cornellà: Improving the Quality of the Construction

Contributors, Densities, Energy and sustainability, Formats, Middle Density, peris + toral, Politics and economics, Project, Topics.

Alternative Domesticity, Circulation, CO2 emissions, Cornellà, Courtyard, Design strategies, Flexibility, Local materials, Modular housing, Project, Residential, Social housing, Spain, Wood construction.

A total of 8,300 m2 of zero-km wood from the forests of the Basque Country were used to build the 10,000 m2 floor area of the new building in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), consisting of 85 social dwellings across five floors. The most notable aspects of this new social housing block by the Barcelona practice Peris+Toral Arquitectes include the layout of communicating rooms to eliminate hallway spaces and make full use of the floor plan, and the use of wood to enable the industrialization of the process, improve the quality of the construction, and notably cut down on building times and reduce CO2 emissions.