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For the first time, Casa Barcelona integrates innovative industrial products in different prototype homes.

They have shown how the use of these new materials helps reduce costs, implement sustainability criteria and make the product more flexible to adapt it to different users.

The result was a two-storey based around a prefabricated structure designed by the Felip Pich-Aguilera architecture practice, in which four homes were installed:

La Casa de las Cosas (The House of Things)
Sauerbruch Hutton

A 70 year-old man living alone with the objects and mementos accumulated over the course of his entire life is the tenant of the Casa de las Cosas prototype. The apartment is divided into different areas that take account of the different situations this person may find himself in, from hosting his family a few days to the consequences of his mobility problems.

Manufacture Apartments
Equip Xavier Claramunt

A home with a large, free multi-purpose space which can grow and adapt in line with the experiences of its inhabitants. The combination of the ceiling, double wall and the use of advanced textiles to divide up the space makes it highly adaptable and extremely efficient whilst keeping to the remit of sustainability.

The Rolling House
Andrés Jaque Arquitectos

The Rolling House is a prototype for a house shared by students or young professionals that seeks to provide a response to this new way of living, one which has become increasing popular in recent decades. The design combines private “capsules” with shared facilities and a social area which plays host to most of the life in the house.

A space for relations and living together
Estudio Carme Pinós

A model home for a family with two kids which boasts a flexible distribution of space thanks to the use of moveable partitions that can be adapted into line with different times and phases. The home is divided into three areas: in the first is the bathrooms, kitchen, cupboard space and corridor; in the second, the rest of the home in the form of a single space; in the third, the outside walls are used to make a space for work and storage.

  • A look from the point of view of rehabilitation

    In 2009 Casa Barcelona focused on rehabilitation as a way for the sector to overcome the difficulties it is facing. Any building can, to a greater or lesser degree, make use of the technical flooring, “improvable” windows or moveable partitions proposed here.