"Name of a country where happiness, simplicity and peace reign in an idyllic environment inhabited by a population that lives in communion with nature"...
Arcadia is a private multi housing development designed to create a community where the 72 housing units are grouped around shared areas in direct contact with nature where the inhabitants are encouraged to know each other and generate common experiences in a safe environment with high added value. The first stage consists of 21 apartments and 15 townhouses.
The design starts from the search to integrate the shared green areas to all the houses, maintaining north / south orientations that adapt to the climatic conditions of the site and provide comfort to its users.
The architecture is based on open spaces that create spatial quality connecting views to the parks from where they receive natural light and ventilation. The transition from the intimate and private to the social and public is achieved through landscape elements.
HomeClub and central park
At the heart of the project is the central park, a large wooded space with coexistence areas to which the homeclub building is integrated, extending the program of uses of the park with leisure, work, fitness and relaxation areas.
Townhouses
The townhouse model is a home conceptualized to be a comfortable, flexible and versatile family space. The architectural program is distributed on 2 levels with 2 or 3 bedrooms. The distribution allows all the main spaces to have views to the parks.
Apartments
The apartments are integrated into 4 storey vertical blocks generating different typologies with units from one bedroom and roof garden to apartments with a garden terrace. In all cases, the spaces are optimized to provide spatial comfort and generous dynamic areas.
The structural and constructive logic is based on parallel load-bearing walls that in turn divide the different units. A sober palette of materials that seek to highlight the green areas gives a contemporary style to the whole.