Designers: Enric Batlle, Joan Roig, designers Collaborators: Goretti Guillén, Meritxell Moyá, Helena Salvadó, designers, G3 Arquitectura, STATIC, Gerardo Rodríguez, engineer, structure, PGI Grup SL, installations Design date: 2008 Construction date: 2010 Client: Grupo Castellví Contractor: DRAGADOS Façade: MOYSER Installations: AXIMA, IMEMSA, Area: 12,000 m2

Such as the INTERFACE building, your building for that Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) can be found within the 22@ district. Within this situation, your building forms a part of an intricate, 22@ Business Park, produced by Grupo Castellví and that contains a sizable business complex well over 41,000 m2 of offices and hotels, delimited by four roads: Bolivia, Ciutat p Granada, Sancho d’Àvila and Badajoz. Also occur this sector is among the industrial facilities from the old Can Tiana textile mill, built-in 1906 to some project by Guiteras and indexed by the Special Protection Arrange for the economic Heritage of Poblenou.

The CMT building stands on the lengthy, narrow site that presents its primary façade to Carrer Bolivia and it is delimited either to side with a passage. Among the old Can Tiana factory structures stands in the center from the site, and also the project sets to recover and incorporate it in to the CMT’s functional programme. The primary volume comprises three basement flooring for vehicle parking and eleven flooring above grade with offices and services. The floor floor, supplying the purpose of access and entrance, connects using the old mill building, the initial structure which is conserved being an auditorium with convenience of 330 persons, a sizable meeting room and services for CMT employees. The rooftop from the mill was modified to be used and connects using the very beginning.

The primary volume, that contains the offices, is organized around a central nucleus of entrances and services, and also the work stations are organized around it, making full utilisation of the spatial freedom loved with a building that opens on all sides. This permitted us to understand more about a volumetric formalization that sets your building aside from its surroundings, highlighting its lengthwise asymmetry and growing its height with regards to the axis from the street. This formal freedom creates a singular form, faceting faces from the building and moulding it as being a distinctive, recognisable piece that finds its reason behind having an innovative relation between exterior and interior. The variation and superposition of exterior spaces and workspaces actually direct the amount for the old factory and begin a subtle, utilitarian relation. The distant presence from the ocean along with a south-facing orientation determine the right position from the balconies.

The choice to bring a unitary treatment towards the building’s outer appearance brought us to safeguard its façade utilizing a horizontal slat system throughout its volume that continues within the old factory, hooking up the 2. The slats actually cover top of the balconies and installations, and form an awning in the first floor entrance.

Projects Batlle i Roig Arquitectes, Head offices of the Telecommunications Market Commission