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Students Residence on the new U.L.E. Campus Competition

Firm

MACA
Virai Arquitectos

Type

Educational › Other

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

The competition proposes a solution for a student
residence on the new University of León Campus. However, there
is no specific plot determined for this use yet, but
several possible locations within the campus.
The project proposes a system
rather than a building.
Unable to design a solution based
on the conditions associated with a given plot, our project offers
an independent and isotropic system,
with its own “domestic” rules, which does not depend on
where it is located and responds the same way to the
different physical conditions that can be found.

The system is based on fragmenting the required
program into smaller clusters, instead of a massive block. Four equal blocks with mixed housing
types, and common uses in each of the blocks, allows the
solution to fit any form that the future plot can have, regardless
of its shape, since the cubes will easily adapt to it.

Each of these four blocks contains 50
dwellings and all uses required for the daily student life.
The blocks interact through the ground floor, but are also
connected across the parking in basement. They
relate creating qualified and different outdoor spaces
according to the needs of each area (sports, meeting space, and
vegetation).
It is a standard, modulated, removable, sustainable,
and recyclable solution, flexible and developable in
phases, adapting the development to the economic and physical demands
of the precise construction moment.

Constructively, the project is based on an
aggregate of modules, the size of a single room, which is
itself prefabricated using a system of timber panels (KLH)
from controlled logging forests.

This creates a grid based on the module (single room),
repeated isotropically in a radial net, around a central
void that allows relationship and communication between plants.
The common areas are distributed in height,
instead of concentrated on the ground floor, each floor enjoying
a common-use space, with interesting views, obtained by
extracting three modules.