65 Subsidised housing units in Zabalgana

IDOM (2)
IDOM
Iñaki Garai Zabala
Inés López

The dwellings are located in an expansion area of the city of Vitoria towards the west, the Zabalgana industrial estate. A block of 65 dwellings is being developed on the plot. The houses are promoted by VISESA, a company dependent on the Basque Government. Given their status as subsidised housing, they must comply with the Ordinances that regulate their design and with construction prices that are in line with a maximum sale price. Likewise, the Partial Plan of the area imposes the volumetry of the buildings and strictly regulates their alignments.

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With this narrow margin for manoeuvre, common to all social housing, we have tried to respond to concerns that permanently condition IDOM's work: a profound sensitivity to nature and landscape, understood as limited assets in need of proper management. With this concern, converging with that of VISESA as a developer aware of its commitment as an Administration and a driving force for the rest of the sector, the dwellings have been designed based on the premises of energy saving and economy of common spaces.

Viv - Aitor Ortiz
Viv - Aitor Ortiz

The formal treatment does not respond to the plan's desire to turn the U-shaped block into an interior space, but rather to the orientation of each façade. Functions performed:

- Drafting and comprehensive management of architectural and engineering projects.

Viv - Aitor Ortiz

- Work management and project management.

Viv - Aitor Ortiz
Viv - Aitor Ortiz

The strict regulation of the volumetry of the block imposed in the planning is altered according to the conditions of its surroundings; in this way the building is alive and sensitive to the conditions of its surroundings. The metal block is deformed, showing itself to be hard and straight, with its roofs to the north, vibrating to the east and west in the reflection of the grazing light and the harder street and opening up to the south with wooden terraces, which are intended to provide a warm counterpoint to the hardness of the metal.

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As a consequence of the desire to distinguish the composition of the block according to its orientation in the harsh climate of Vitoria, we have differentiated the south façades from the rest, which are treated in the same way, regardless of their position in relation to the interior garden. During the project process, common to the drafting of the 88 dwellings on plot 112, IDOM proposed to VISESA the possibility of carrying out a study parallel to the drafting of the project to analyse the effect that certain project decisions could have on energy savings and comfort during the building's operation phase. The aim of this study was to strike a reasonable balance between building systems or installations that could favour energy savings and their actual effectiveness in terms of heating costs or their effect on comfort.

Viv - Aitor Ortiz
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