Carabanchel Social Housing

Foreign Office Architects (FOA) (2)
Foreign Office Architects (FOA)
Alejandro Zaera Polo
Farshid Moussavi

Operating within a severely limited budget, the Carabanchel Social Housing project comprises 100 social housing units on the outskirts of Madrid. The development, within a regeneration area, is bounded by a new urban park on the west and by similar housing blocks on the north, east and south. Regulations set the number of units and the percentages of every size. The maximum height was also a constraint, but not the alignment within the rectangular plot.

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Sergio Padura

Sergio Padura
Sergio Padura

Given the adjacency to a future urban park and the North-South orientation of the site, our proposal is to compact the volume within the given height in order to provide a private garden for the units on the eastern side and to produce double aspect units facing both gardens. In order to achieve this, the units became elongated “tubes” that connect both façades. Thanks to the compactness of the block, we succeeded in providing fully glazed façades for all the exterior surfaces.

EUMies Award
EUMies Award

The facades have been lined with a 1.5m wide terrace which provides a semi-exterior buffer space, enclosed by bamboo screens mounted on folding frames. The screens protect the glazed surfaces from the strong East-West solar exposure, and are able to open to the side gardens when desired.

Sergio Padura

General information

Carabanchel Social Housing

YEAR

2007

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit from public roads

Address

St. Clarinetes, 15

28054 Madrid - Madrid

Latitude: 40.371105

Longitude: -3.7645982

Classification

Built area

más de 20000 m²

Awards

FAD 2008

ACUE 2009

Involved architects

Alejandro Zaera Polo

Farshid Moussavi

Involved architectural firms

Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

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EUMies Award

Website links

EUMies Award

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