THRESHOLD | Implantation
Due to the situation and
the characteristics of the plot, and taking advantage of the free ground floor to
generate the access for the center instead of for an end, the project appears
as a threshold of access to the Colonies of “Nuestra Señora de los Angeles”, a
step between the urban environment and the green space that proposes the plan.
The project proposes a few
landscaped spaces that provide with privacy to the housings in ground floor, at
the same time as they initiate this tour across the senses of the future green
space. The topography also turns out to be a fundamental factor, since the
project allows to anchor minimizing his visual impact, playing with valleys and
spaces landscaped in hills.
SILEX | Vallecas Flints
The sílex is an extremely
hard mineral though very fragile that tends to the break in fragments that
looks like edges. Vallecas always was very rich in sílex (flints) and in
plasters that were extracted from his quarries.
Following this tradition,
the project wants to evoke the edges, the colors, the textures, the shades of
the big blocks of hewn stone piled up and displaced, working the building and
propitiating a rhythmic front. The edges typical of the flint and the texture
and color of the plasters evoked in the front provoke a few games of lights and
shades in the facade.
The threshold raised as
door to the later garden, emphasizes his lateral edges in the south-east front
marking the tour of entry and inviting to the access.