{"id":3112,"date":"2018-12-30T03:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T02:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.listonegiordano.com\/casa-privata-eg69\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T16:57:12","slug":"casa-privata-eg69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/one\/en\/architecture\/casa-privata-eg69\/","title":{"rendered":"EG69: past and future live side by side in Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Eixample” means extension in Spanish<\/strong>. One of Barcelona\u2019s best-known, most populous and attractive districts owes its name to Ildefons Cerd\u00e0\u2019s 1855 expansion plan to build a garden city characterized by broad open spaces, wide boulevards and low-rise buildings, conceived to enshrine no difference between the areas where the various social classes lived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although local well-to-do people tried to thwart his plan, Cerd\u00e0\u2019s expansion created Barcelona\u2019s enduring image of wide, tree-lined boulevards dividing up the urban fabric into beveled quadrilateral-shaped blocks. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subsequent new town plans saw the construction of buildings taller than the designer had originally planned<\/strong>, their fa\u00e7ades set back from the road profile. The rest is, as they say, history: Barcelona\u2019s Eixample became home to Gaud\u00ec\u2019s famously eclectic architecture, lending the area and indeed the whole city its unique character. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miba Architects<\/a>\u2019 project in Calle Enric Granados, a particularly favored, pedestrianized street, added an additional floor and two new residences, while aligning the roof profile with the contiguous buildings<\/strong>, in what had been a low-rise building with four above-ground floors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding additional floors to the low-rise buildings in Cerd\u00e0\u2019s original Eixample district plan is a widespread practice that has resulted in some truly interesting architectural solutions. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Miba Architects project for developer La Casa por el Tejado was one of the first such designs. The project\u2019s hallmark feature is that it is made entirely out of pre-fabricated elements, adopting an extremely lightweight <\/strong>wood<\/strong><\/a> panel construction system that made it possible to erect the two new apartments in just two days<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n