Apr 12, 2020 · Walden 7 is a project implementing some of Ricardo Bofill's earliest ambitions and addressing most of the problems of modern city life. It is located on the...

Walden 7 is an apartment building designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura and located in Sant Just Desvern near Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It was built in 1975. [1]

Walden 7 is an urban, architectonic complex located in the former Sanson cement factory. It comprises three gigantic buildings, of which only one is finished, that form the sides of a hypothetical triangle, inside which there still remain a few installations from the former factory.

To honor the life and work of Ricardo Bofill (1939–2022), Design Stories is remembering the renowned Spanish architect through one of his most utopian, and controversial, works: Walden 7, a surreal housing complex located close to Barcelona.

Hi vivim molta gent –prop de mil persones- i cada una té el seu món. Però en aquest espai virtual no hi trobaràs móns privats ni històries passionals, sinó un esquema global de com és i com està organitzat. El Walden-7 no és un laberint del que et serà fàcil …

Dec 11, 2018 · Experimental Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s Walden 7, built in 1975 in Sant Just Desvern, near Barcelona, consists of 446 apartments grouped around five interior courtyards.

Working to a budget appreciably lower than the norm for subsidized housing at the time, with unusual funding, Walden-7 rose up as a monument and point of reference in this area to the west of Barcelona.

May 23, 2018 · Designed by famous Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, Walden 7 is located on the same lot as Bofill's firm, La Fabrica, which he built inside an abandoned cement factory. The...

Working to a budget appreciably lower than the norm for subsidized housing at the time, with unusual funding, Walden-7 rose up as a monument and point of reference in this area to the west of Barcelona.

Walden 7 is a residential building designed by the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. It is situated west of Barcelona, in the nearby town of Sant Just Desvern. The original project includes four internal courtyards and about five hundred residences.