Residential Building Refurbishment on Sant Ramon

Location

Barcelona

Year

2017

The project involved both the dwellings and the common areas of the building. The intervention sought to enhance the original structural system, based on timber joists, ceramic jack arch slabs and load-bearing walls, while consolidating the building without altering its original structural logic. A unified solution was adopted for the floor structures, reducing self-weight in order to avoid intervention in the foundations. Depending on the state of conservation of each floor, two types of intervention were carried out: reinforcement with cross-laminated timber panels connected to the existing timber joists and perimeter walls, or replacement of the most deteriorated floor structures where necessary.