The proposal and the city
The first approach takes into account the relationship between the built volume and the urban open space, both from a qualitative point of view and from aspects linked to the landscape of the city in all its meanings.
The site, located within a complex of recently built residential buildings, presents a condition of 'end' of the existing block that, far from being a problem, appears as an opportunity. In this way, the proposal as the last fragment of the neighborhood is designed as a 'curtain building' which, organised into two blocks, articulates the public space and gives coherence to the whole building complex in the area.
The proposal and the building complex
The two blocks of flats seek, on one hand, to break with a continuous building front and, on the other, to adapt to the different orientations of the site in order to offer a diversity of dwellings. The two volumes, inscribed in a three-dimensional structure based on 3.30-meter bays, share an architectural system that must be read simultaneously in plan and in section in order to be understood.
With a design that takes into account the diversity of the users' lifestyles, types of housing, sunlight and other considerations, the common scheme of each volume responds to a ribbon of services and facilities that runs through the central area of the building and acts as a hinge between the rest of the rooms, thus allowing natural lighting and ventilation for each house.
The landings, corridors, patios and other unnamed spaces generated as a result of this diversity generate different spaces for privacy and coexistence, covered or not, with diverse geometries where the users can develop their lives in ways not envisaged by architects, being responsible for the collective negotiation that guarantees the compatibility of uses, which are surely surprising.
Finally, a surface of solar panels and a green area for community production crown each of the buildings and ensure a certain energy and productive autonomy for the building.
