BANYOLES O.G.1992

DWELINGS IN THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE OF BANYOLES AND URBANIZATION OF THE ACCESS TO THE LAKE THROUGH MOSSÈN CONSTANS AND LA PUDA STREETS

 It is one of the 10 housing complexes built for the 1992 Olympic Games in the Banyoles sub headquarters, next to the lake. The planning plan provided  some square blocks divided in half and the present project corresponds to the one at the N-W end of the town, in the corner that overlooks the lake. The arrangement in the form of a U and an interior patio with a garden was predetermined by the Plan. The project was limited to breaking the two corners to favor the views towards the lake and the immediate park, where the two entrances were located. The building combines two types of housing: single storey and duplex. This makes  possible to break the excessive rigidity of the volumetry provided for in the regulations. The treatment of facades, roofs and exterior volumes tries to give a smaller grain to the operation; This also recovers in some way the idea of ​​the provisional and decomposed architectures of the suburban and rural constructions of the surroundings, which mix, in a fortuitous way, the stone fences of Banyoles with the rusty metal plates or fiber cement and the careless plastering. Finally, the promoter replaced the project materials with others, according to his more “commercial” criteria: marble and lacquered steel plate, which partially distorted the initial idea proposed. From the same period is the urbanization project of Paseo Mossèn Constans and de la Puda, drawn up with landscape integration criteria for each specific sector through which these roads cross, combining soft pavements, consolidated grass and pedestrian sidewalks with red asphalt, establishing also bike lanes in parts of its route.