This housing block is silently inserted into the irregular grid which surrounds it and goes almost unnoticed as you approach from the street. The mortar finish, the glass louvers or the fibre cement panels envelop living spaces which are full of nuances.

The effort to make the best use of the reduced dimensions of the social housing turns into a gallery which is also a living room or a balcony, an entrance corridor which can also be a terrace, a porch or a collective patio, and a bedroom which can be a study or form part of the living room. That's why we've included it in HoCo.

Photos taken by Javier Arpa, available under request.

Lopez-Rivera Arquitectos
27 Social Housing Units, 2007
Barcelona, Spain