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Campus North UPC

Cantallops / Martínez Lapeña / Benedito Rovira / Rahola

Architects: Lluís Cantallops / José Antonio Martínez Lapeña / Josep Benedito Rovira / Victor Rahola
Location: Barcelona (Catalonia)

It has taken shape between Bruc barracks and former technical schools as an expanding of the educational infrastructure of these and all the UPC.

General Management Plan for the North Campus of the UPC · Lluís Cantallops, José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, 1st Stage 1984, Josep Benedito, 2nd Stage 1992 · The first phase of the plan was proposed to generate a model of campus-based on parameters different than the usual. A mesh of PB+2 blocks should form a network of buildings separated by small steps, as in small urban centers of municipalities in the suburbs.

Outdoor relationship spaces sprang such as little squares removing some of the blocks, and the organization of them should obey some order imposed by the set, for example, the absence of porches. The second phase resolves the remaining space of this framework by the particular volumetric definition of a few bodies.