80 APARTMENTS IN SALOU

Salou, Spain

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80 APARTMENTS IN SALOU

Salou, Spain

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Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

YEAR

2010

The design
competition proposed doing 80 apartments in a program for social housing. The
building site is situated on the furthest North of Salou. The new urban
development framework is planned over the pre-existing layout farmland. So the
new place is originated from high plots where buildings are settled in
perpendicular way.
The plan
wonders about intermediate spaces, transitions, thresholds? as a bridge between
natural and human places. They try establishing continuities and non-stops in
order to disperse the boundaries of different places.
The project
works with large and small scales. The program of low-cost housing develops its
relation properties basing on architecture as a support which is close to the
user.
Seven and
three homes per floor are planned in blocks of ground floor plus three. A light
bank allows creating an underground car park with daylight and cross
ventilation. In this sloping layer, black poplars planted to get West-facing
protection.
The access
and common spaces are thought as meeting places, intermediate spaces between
dwellings and open air spaces. In the hallway, a mesh with the removal or
addition of steel bars as the program requested works as a parapet, balconies,
drip system? Vegetation can also grow upwards by twining to cool the hot air. These
spaces will be appreciated so much in summer.
The economy
of the project is optimized by using a single typology. The dwelling revolves
around a central piece which contains wet spaces (kitchen and bathroom) and
plumbing walls.

Dwellings
enjoy two opposite fa�ades and present a cross sequence spaces: gateway, apartment
and balcony. These make dwellings are flexible according to use and weather
conditions. The balcony makes the apartment bigger, casts shadows and generates
transparencies (passive systems).
The purpose
is built with simple, cheap and low maintenance costs materials, but careful
construction.

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80 APARTMENTS IN SALOU

Salou, Spain

80 APARTMENTS IN SALOU

Salou, Spain

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