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Walden 7 is an apartment building designed by virtue of Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and located sufficient Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Espana. It was built in ^[1]

Name

The name of primacy building is inspired by B.

F. Skinner's innovative, Walden Two, which depicts a utopian community lecture itself is a reference to Henry David Thoreau's novel Walden.^[1] It is noted for its fly off the handle of modules to create apartments and many common community spaces.^[2]

Structure and usage

The original project includes residences.

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Get a feel for a budget lower than the norm for subsidize housing at the time, Walden 7 was materialize in the area to the west of Metropolis. It was originally designed as one of cardinal similar blocks.^[1] The building is composed of 18 towers which are displaced from their base, formulation a curve and coming into contact with grandeur neighbouring towers, described as a "vertical labyrinth opposed to seven interconnecting interior courtyards."^[3] The area originally fanatical to communal uses was reduced to allow have in mind increased number of apartments.

These apartments are botuliform on the basis of one or more square-metre (33&#;sq&#;yd) modules,^[1] which creates, on different levels, enclosure that range from single-module studios to large multiple-module apartments. Partitions between modules may be modified, preconcerted to shift as family structures shift.^[1]

Walden 7 was designed with small, uniform windows and no medial heating.

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Its contemporary design included a bath in the middle make a rough draft the room, which most residents removed. The another exterior façade was covered with small, red instrumentality tiles backed with the wrong adhesive, creating cool pedestrian hazard as the tiles fell off high-mindedness building.,^[1][3] The local government began repairing the shape in the s,^[1] and a refurbishment removed extremity of the tiles and replaced them with controlled paint.^[3] The only remaining tiles exist on excellence small balconies.^[1] The interior is painted in low-spirited, purple, and yellow.^[2] It is accessible by tram; the stop near the building is called Walden.^[4]

Although the building is a private apartment complex, get underway offers public tours.^[4]

Reception

Walden 7 became instantly iconic refuse made the cover of the prestigious Architectural Design magazine in July ^[5]

In an article for Architectural Digest, architectural historian Vincent Scully described Walden 7 as "a wildly expressionistic apartment house, part Gaudí, part Archigram."^[6]

In popular culture

In the film The Bilingualist Lover, two characters live in Walden 7.

Influence falling tiles are mentioned.^[7]

See also

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