Madrid’s downtown is an area that accuses an important deficit of dowries and public facilities. The revitalization programs in the city centre need to be effective and complementary to the residential use and solve some of the existing problems to keep the city fully operative in the XXI century such as parking, environmental services, etc...
The goal was therefore, to integrate the strong demand of residential surface with complementary, industrial type or municipal services, which are necessary activities for the life of the district.
Following that path the new building integrates three uses clearly differentiated:
Assisted living for young people, parking for residents and the facilities that hold municipal cleaning services. Each one of the specific uses shows a series of own necessities that define the types and the amount of relation that are possible between them.
The dwelling typology of this project is conceived for rent to young users in their first experience of independent life.
The model suggests an open habitable space, with double orientation, from facade to facade, linked to a service area that holds a bathroom, kitchen and wardrobes.
The articulation of the different activity zones within this flexible, illuminated, ventilated and conditioned space would be solved by the own inhabitant of the house through the furniture position and the light elements of compartmentalization.
The characterization and personalization of the house space is part of the vital experience that goes implicit in the emancipation and independence process that favours the housing plan for rent to the young, and this simple typological model pretends to help the individual inventiveness in the same direction.