The Les Corts neighbourhood, in the side west of the city, is known for its dense urban fabric and is bordered by major avenues such as Diagonal, Madrid and Josep Tarradellas. A mostly residential and business neighbourhood, its buildings span several different eras. The party wall is located at the corner of Carrer de Lluçà and Avinguda Madrid. This avenue, which was planned in the late nineteenth century, was completed in the 1960s and was designed to be a high-density urban road for vehicles. This concept is being re examined, with plans to reduce vehicle lanes and increase pedestrian space.

The four-building complex where the party wall is located is just one example of early twentieth-century residential community architecture surrounded by housing blocks from the 1970s and 1980s which are quite different in style and scale. The opening up of roads and streets in the urban planning of the 1960s led to these blind façades and left the ventilation shaft for the interior rooms of the housing units exposed.

The proposal must address this awkward sight and create a façade that can complete the corner, solve the part where it meets the street and integrate the courtyard.