Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Grupo de viviendas unifamiliares adosadas, en Bellpuig Lérida-España

1979; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 32; Issue: 316 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/ic.1979.v32.i316.2386

1988-3234

Salvador Margarit Barcón, Antonio Consuegra Simón,

Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

This group was designed some time as a housing for the managerial staff of the G.M.P. concrete prefab manufacturing company. The original design comprised eight townhouses and a tower with 40 fiats, but only the townhouses have been built. The property, a strip between two streets formerly occupied by a factory, presents a Sharp drop, the higher ground supported by a retaining wall against which the back of the townhouses are abutted. The old factories and warehouses in this Industrial town are mostly built using the traditional «Catalonian vault» method. Tile availability of craftsmen experienced in this type of construction encouraged the designers to make use of this kind of vaulted roofing as a formal element to define the different areas.