Architects:HARQUITECTES

Area :1750 m²

Year :2017

Photographs :Adrià Goula

Structure :DSM arquitectes

Acoustics :i2A

Environmental Consulting :Societat Orgànica

Author Architects : David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros, Roger Tudó

Collaborators : Montse Fornés, Jordi Mitjans, Berta Romeo, Carla Piñol, Blai Cabrero Bosch, Toni Jiménez, Jorge Suárez-Kilzi

Installations : VIDAL enginyeria i consultoria

Measurements : Aumedes DAP

Facade Restoration : Chroma rehabilitacions integrals

Audiovisual Installation : ESITEC enginyeria

Awards : Premi Ciutat Barcelona 2017

Façade Restoration : Chroma rehabilitacions integrals

City : Barcelona

Country : Spain

Three starting points: understanding the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928),an old working-class cooperative in the Sants neighborhood; knowing to the detail the building’s (physical) state to maintain as much as possible; and being sensitive to the whole collaborative process launched in 2009 by neighborhood organizations to recover the building. To this end, four basic objectives were set out: first, taking advantage of everything that could be used from the original; second, defining an intervention strategy marking out the essential actions, conservative or not, allowing to recover and increase the potential uses of all those spaces; third, to establish an intensive dialogue – and tense, if due – with context; and fourth, to develop a sustainable proposal, regarding the work on the existing as well as the new interventions.