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Fabra & Coats & Social Housing

Roldán+Berengué, arqts.

Fabra & Coats & Social Housing by Roldán+Berengué, arqts. is an transformative renovation project of a historic industrial building of the 19th century in Barcelona, Spain. While the building was previously only used for textile production, the transformation of 2019 providedthe structure for social housing.
This project contributes to the social-ecological transformation by successfully combining industrial heritage rehabilitation, social housing creation, and reversible dry construction methods using wood, achieving acoustic comfort and significant reductions in construction and operational energy consumption. 

City

Barcelona

Country

Spain

Use Before

Infrastructure, Warehouse

Use After

Housing, Collective

Year

2019