Category Archives: HOUSING

SESTAO

Wednesday January 9th, 2019 admin Leave a comment

The location of the building, next to the access of the new square to be located inside the residential block, makes it the new entrance to this open space.

The proposal tries to lead the passers-by to the new public space thanks to the permeability of the ground floor and the singularity of its front to the upper street, thus distinguishing itself from the annexed buildings and announcing access to the new square.

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The compactness that characterizes the floor plant makes it possible to organize two dwellings per level oriented opposite the street and the park. Both types, while meeting the dimensional restrictions of this type of housing, benefit from a privileged corner position with two orientations and large windows that open the space to the exterior views.

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AGUILA ALCATEL

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

Twenty three housing units must be organized on a triangular lot in front of the Atocha station in Madrid. Given its peculiar shape, we propose a system of parallel walls along the southern border to organize the plot providing natural light and through ventilation for each flat.

The side facing the street is oriented towards the train tracks, for which we propose an intermediate, deep band to provide the necessary filter between the two spaces.

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CARABANCHEL 29

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

It is a large building of 262 social dwellings on a huge parcel in Carabanchel, to the south of Madrid.

Our strategy is to construct a continuous ring around the perimeter of the site, phased to suit the slope and setback in opposite corners of the parcel in order to minimize its size. These setback points provide the main entrances.

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Access to the portals occurs at the street for the apartments aligned with the sidewalk. The rest of the access points are from the interior garden.
Cores serve four flats per floor in most cases.

Parking is also solved as a circuit, adapted to the structural bays, parking place and street dimensions. The shops are located at the perimeter of the plot. The largest shops are located on the busiest street.

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OS CAPELOS

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The International Social Housing Competition allowed the choice between different locations, all of them very different from each other and each with a specific type of use.

We opted for our location because of our interest in the townhouse typology.

We began with the large void created by the development executed in the dense forest environment at Os Capelos. Immediately we thought of how to regain this original green environment.

The organization of households should adhere to a central road that was already built. We achieved this through five different rows. Our goal in each was to alter the drab and impersonal rhythm that often comes from the simple juxtaposition of housing.

To do this we used two types of housing, with similar but differentiated volumes. Each type in turn would have the necessary variations according to the number of bedrooms specified in the rules.

The combination of housing types and variations helped us set up the five rows generating an image of fragmented roof volumes well adapted to the green profile of the landscape that surrounds them.

Prefabricated panels in vegetal colors for rooves and vertical walls, help to further the integration of the proposal in the forest.

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PICAÑOL

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The urban structure of the extension of Sabadell is based on a grid of smaller blocks than the Plan Cerda of Barcelona. Each block consists of many narrow and deep bays that hold housing and looms and whose juxtaposition creates a distinctive profile to the streets.

The project uses this reference for a volumetric profile, respecting the historical image and maintaining the urban scale of the environment. On the flat roof, shared spaces are proposed including an elongated swimming pool looking out over the city.

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SAN ANDRES

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The proposal suggests a solution to the necessary construction of social housing in the vicinity of San Andrés, the old Jewish quarter of the city of Jaen, on the archaeological site that refers to the origin of the city itself.

To achieve a system of duplicate platforms that connect with the existing street at different heights sewing this area of the city is proposed. At its lower levels it accomodates the movement of vehicles and above the pedestrian routes, with access to shops and homes.

QThis system remains “suspended” on the archaeological ruins with the fewest possible bearings needed to ensure stability and minimal impact on the site. A series of perforations serve as skylights to illuminate from above the ” archaeological layer “.

The platforms will become viewpoints on the vast landscape of olive groves surrounding the city and the castle. And they will support the slender rental housing blocks, seeking the desired integration between old and young inhabitants of the city. They also will house workshops, stores and spaces of artistic expression.

The high concentration of housing frees up a public space that we hope will become a regenerative environment. These blocks, like lookouts, enjoy optimum sunshine which often in lacking for the inhabitants of the historic districts, while ensuring an open, airy urban space.

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VALLECAS 51

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

Located in Madrid’s Vallecas, the parcel in question is located at the head of a row of elongated blocks of social housing on the large boulevard that structures the development. The end of the building that forms the start of this promenade is given a uniqueness as an entry point to the new neighborhood.

The program, defined in detail from the start, includes the number and characteristics of the housing elements. These are resolved by two volumes separated by a generous open space thus avoiding the conventional image of the enclosed patio. The circulation and access turn to this space, doubly encouraged by a series of through flatss that both delimit and moderate its length.

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VALLECAS 1.30

Sunday May 25th, 2014 admin Leave a comment

The proposed parcel in the new Vallecas comes of the division into four quarters of a closed block 75 meters wide. As a mechanism to grant some autonomy to the corresponding quarter block, we propose a continuous facade image on the exterior with rhythmed openings while inside the proposal is fragmented thus reducing its scale more appropriate for the internal space in which is located.

Two bays of housing are linked through corridors that connect the vertical cores.

The homes have been designed with flexibility and maximum amplitude within the conditions in area. The outer band contains the living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms, while the inner strip contains bathrooms, kitchen with space for clotheslines and air conditioning machines and access.

One type of housing module with variations in the three corners of the building, plus the necessary disabled person, complete the building.