//Multilayered housing.We carried over the design for this residential settlement which is included in our entry for the international competition "La Metamorfosi" (Turin urban renewal) which achieved the honorable mention. The main feature of the complex is the presence of a public ground floor conceived as a platform: allowing the complete pedestrian crossing of the area while hosting commercial functions and sustaining the housing blocks upon it. A multilayered system.The concept of a body with different functions within is declined here in a different way from the usual big scale multilayered buildings: the system is not growing in height, though being composed by layers; it is spread over a wide surface in order to put the highest number of shops on the same storey.Since we were concerned about the social relations we could enstablish in the new district, housing on the platform were carefully designed and conceived to allow interactions among people. The average/small scale of the blocks along with the limited height of the interventions helps to create a “familiar” context. The intention was to produce a new part of the city which is closer to the historic city centre typology rather than being an anonymous suburban district with out-of-scale buildings.The blocks are “lifted” from the public space in some points, allowing a constant and complete permeability of the whole system for pedestrians. At the same time the variable disposition of the buildings give birth to courtyards and small squares: these spaces are both public and private, causing the two aspects to be strictly connected and intertwined. Finally, through stairs, elevators and escalators the connection with the shops/services level underneath is guaranteed.On the top of the buildings there are some volumes sprouting up from the roof: these elements are roof villas which enstablish an unpredictable relation with the garden roof and among different blocks.This presence set up a different typology of housing on top of a consolidate urban type.Along with the internal organization, which provides a great variety of apartments and typologies, we took care of the formal aspect for the final design, proposing an elegant and simple solution for the façades. The external sides of the blocks are covered with wood paneling, while the inner sides are simply painted in white. The modular windows (0.5m, 1m and 2m) give movement to the squared simple façades.