Social Housing Vélez Rubio

The resulting volume begins with a dialogue with
the regulations, setting out the possibilities afforded, and the requirement to
occupy all the buildable area, followed by a series of agreements with the
required program, providing sufficient depths for the construction and the
starting conditions that permit at a later stage put the dwellings with
desirable characteristics such as cross ventilation, direct sun (taking into
account the unfavorable orientation of the plot), contact with the street, neighborhood
relationship ... to end up with a context dialogue, in which with a far zoom
away, we see Velez Rubio as a rather dense set in its historic center,
characterized by wandering streets, white walls, tiled pitched roof, while this
density is lost in the expansion, with isolated houses of lowheight.The immediate
surroundings of the site present these latest features, while the operation is
performed on a lot of larger dimensions (aggregation of several parcels) that
does not find a similar scale in the vicinity.The volume is
developed with the intention of representing what it is, a 24 dwellings
building , big in comparison, yet fits the scale of the surrounding area: thus
emerged as a solid front, compact and continuous in the ground level , which
as it elevates it starts a slight movement of rupture and fold that manifests
towards the outside façade modules similar to adjacent parcels, topping the
roof with peaks of different heights, which is a veiled reference to the
towering peaks far visible on the horizon of the Sierra María-Los Vélez.... in the street,
like at home ... proposes a system of collective housing that does not lose the
link with the street: people out with their chairs and tables outside to chat
with neighbors, to take the air in summer
nights ...If outward
volumetrically the building fits the scale of context, on the inside, this
relationship turns into a programmatic lay out: the basic outline of all
dwellings is based on a continuous street-room spanning the entire housing,
connecting the outside (the street), with the interior (courtyard
neighborhood), drawing on both the distant views towards the hills of the
Sierra as the input from the sun by the south side in the courtyard.The other
rooms are attached to the street-room: bedrooms at the ends, and support areas
(bathrooms, storage ...) in the middle.While access to the rooms is made by the
supporting areas, all rooms have windows that overlook the street-room, as if
each dwelling is composed of a street with houses on either side, providing an
important additional quality.All homes connect to the outside through the room /
street, while receiving direct illumination through the inside of the rooms,
topped by a small terrace entrance, which serves as a winter terrace, sheltered
from the sun, while the north end of the hall-streets is the summer terrace,
sheltered in the shade.The combination of sliding doors and windows
inside the house turns a conventional dwelling to a completely open and
connected one.The parking is located on the entry into the
lowest level, reducing the need to ramp down to the basement level and thus
reducing the amount of land to dig. This operation can raise the ground floor slab to avoid
interference from view from the street.The earth excavated to create the basement is
reused to fill the courtyard level.

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Social Housing Vélez Rubio

Social Housing Vélez Rubio

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