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37 Dwellings in Guadix

37 Dwellings in Guadix
© Fernando Alda

37 DWELLINGS IN GUADIX

Studio Wet + Antonio G. Liñán

ARCHITECTS
Studio Wet, Antonio G. Liñán

LOCATION
Guadix, Spain

CATEGORY
Apartments

AREA
4636.0 m²

PROJECT YEAR
2012

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fernando Alda

BUDGET
2,9Mill €

CLIENT
Empresa Pública de Suelo de Andalucía

COMPANY
Jubuconsa

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Daniel Montes, Jose Gómez Mora, Antonio G. Liñán

COLLABORATORS
Daniel Yusty, Arquitecto Técnico (Mediciones), Francisco León Muñoz, estudiante. Manuel Sánchez, Manuel Caba (Aparejadores, Dirección Obra).

Guadix is located in a singular placement from the point of view of its geology, at the foot of Sierra Nevada Mountains, and over a valley formed by clay, which has been scratched and drilled by the Mediterranean Sea on the process of leaving this land to its current limits.

37 Dwellings in Guadix
© Fernando Alda
37 Dwellings in Guadix
© Fernando Alda

These facts have affected the way people has lived and built in this area, from the so-called “casas-cueva” (caves converted into houses) to the wide use of clay-bricks in its well known cathedral. Thus, this social housing proposal stands on a faceted and sculpted volume through large folded surfaces.

This volume has been hollowed out as if making a cavern, and therefore to allow the natural light to carve and mould the empty space.

37 Dwellings in Guadix
© Fernando Alda
37 Dwellings in Guadix
© Fernando Alda

THE APARTMENTS ARE SPLIT INTO THREE DIFFERENT STRIPES:

The outer stripe (facade) works as a filter for sunlight using deep cells for the windows.The deepness of this stripe creates a storage area for the apartments.

The intermediate stripe holds all the different rooms of the apartments. It would be possible to create a continuous space with no individual rooms.

The last stripe works as a supporting facility, where kitchens and bathrooms can satisfy the proper activities of living.

The ground floor has been hollowed, eliminating some apartments to connect the different internal voids, in order to perceive a continuous and sculpted space inside the building.

37 Dwellings in Guadix
© Fernando Alda


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