Social Housing In Carabanchel

Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán

SOCIAL HOUSING IN CARABANCHEL

coco arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
coco arquitectos

LOCATION
MADRID, SPAIN

AREA
20000.0 m2

YEAR
2010

CATEGORY
Social Housing

PHOTOGRAPHS
Miguel de Guzmán, Ignacio Izquierdo, coco arquitectos

Text description provided by architect.

Outlying contexts surrounded by city border highways, fields, malls… require consistent answers.

Social Housing In Carabanchel
© coco arquitectos
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© coco arquitectos

These are places where any action demands the same audacity, for example, a leaning building.

The construction expresses with the language of kinetic, fitting its shape parallel to the slope while the ground floor retrieves the level of the plot defining streets.

The building plan is a thin strip, with narrow apartments opened onto two different scenes: one side the city, the other the wide private garden.

Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Ignacio Izquierdo

Every unit has a room which crosses from side to side, opening simultaneously to both of them.

We seek for dwelling with blurred frontiers between spaces, where inner room shape can be changed, and with the presence of an extra room.

A room floating outside the building, attached to the facade, large enough to accommodate any domestic activity.

Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Ignacio Izquierdo
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Ignacio Izquierdo

We approach social housing from present society, where customizing your own house is a way to seek for individuality.

In this context, the new room, freely set in the facade, expresses this new understanding: a random image with all elevation being unique, every single dwelling different from each other, and only the intervention of the users helping it to acquire significance.

Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Ignacio Izquierdo


Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing In Carabanchel
© Miguel de Guzmán


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