WALDEN 7 Building in Data

Abstract

The main objective of this work is the realization of a complete and organized by decades database of the most important Spanish collective housing buildings of the twentieth century. According with this data, the international journal “Cuadernos de Vivienda” is elaborated periodically. Each number is focused on a paradigmatic example of collective housing. It includes complete digitalized drawings in order to develop a record of quantifiable and comparable data. These data is classified by scales, ranging from urban to domestic metrics. Creating established templates, we can cross information and precise analogies between the studied models. The aim is to communicate our interest about data, about the measurable, the objective and comparable information in order to be analyzed, verified and assimilated. These allow us to move from abstract to applied research as a tool of project design.

In addition, in order to contextualize the building, the monograph includes a facsimile reproduction from its time and an article written by an expert researcher. Thus, the publication concludes with a review of the case study from a contemporary prism, allowing a range of conclusions for future potential designing processes, forged in the precise and rigorous knowledge of the existing patrimony.

The number CV 014 is devoted to the Walden 7 Building, by Ricardo Bofill and Taller de Arquitectura, located in Barcelona, designed and built between 1970 and 1975.