20 social housing units

KAUH arquitectura y paisajismo (2)
Involved architects (1)
KAUH arquitectura y paisajismo
Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz
Vincent Morales Garoffolo
Involved architects

An essential residential building. This project for twenty social housing units for rent is resolved by careful attention to scale and proportion, taking into account the restrictive Subsidised Housing regulations, the rigid municipal by-laws and a very limited budget. The context, a generic Andalusian peripheral landscape, reflects the typical planning of the construction boom.

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Facing this situation, we modelled a housing unit with an identity capable of being located in an area of complex relationships between different residential typologies and urban uses, and determining topographical and volumetric transitions. The housing typology and its schematic and repetitive aggregation is fitted into a single bay with double ventilation which, when grouped together, generates two geometrically defined blocks, whose shape and structural layout optimise their use and the square metres built.

Interior view - Fernando Alda
Exterior view - Fernando Alda

The layout of the complex frees up part of the plot to build a small public space, one of a series of intermediate spaces that provide potential collective meeting places. The clarity of the ground plan, crossed with the creative reading of the PGOU (General Plan for Urban Zoning), allows us to be flexible when composing the final volumes in an action of adaptation to the urban landscape, which,  with the work on the image of the building, avoids the generic block per se.

Exterior view - Fernando Alda

This adaptive approach is also applied to the composition of the openings in the various façades, which are maximised, allowing us, among other things, to have a double entrance of light into the living rooms. Repetition, variation, identity and surprise mark the design guideline.

Exterior view - Fernando Alda

General information

20 social housing units

YEAR

2013

Status

Built

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Address

St. Trece Rosas, 6

11140 Conil de la Frontera - Cádiz

Latitude: 36.281382389

Longitude: -6.080785264

Classification

Built area

501 - 5000 m²

Awards

XIII BEAU

Involved architects

Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz

Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz

Vincent Morales Garoffolo

Vincent Morales Garoffolo

Collaborators

Duarte asociados (Structure)

IS Ingenieros (Installations)

Fernando Alda (Photography)

Celia Ramos Ramírez (Topography)

Francisco Gallardo Trujillo (Technical architect (execution manager))

Francisco Alba Ortega (Technical architect (execution manager))

Involved architectural firms

KAUH arquitectura y paisajismo

Information provided by

Consejo Andaluz de Colegios Oficiales de Arquitectos (CACOA)

Website links

Fernando Alda

KAUH arquitectura y paisajismo

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