156 transitional housing units for young people

Our proposal was one of the six winning proposals and we had to include exactly 156 dwellings, which were the ones that corresponded to us in the Plan. In the competition, from the very slogan "Building situations", we started from the situationist postulates of the 1950s. In their texts they taught us to understand the city from the individual experience. Exclusively functionalist approaches were a thing of the past; aspects that went beyond dimensional parameters, road hierarchies, full-emptying, and that dealt with topological, relational, phenomenological parameters were of interest.

The space of the city acquires meaning from the use that its inhabitants make of it, from the multiplicity of relationships that can take place in it: experiencing the city as a territory in which to "build situations". Faced with a degraded peripheral landscape, devoured by infrastructures, we would like to understand our proposal of housing for young people as a playful re-appropriation of urban space.

The site plan itself, reminiscent of Guy Debord's psychogeographical maps, shows the site as part of the network of public spaces in the municipality. We planned to free up the ground plan as much as possible with a new topography that houses the facilities, to create a field of leisure activities that can vary according to the subject and the time of day and according to the seasons.