30 Dwellings In Manres
30 DWELLINGS IN MANRESA
Nothing Architecture
YEAR
2009
LOCATION
Manresa, Spain
CATEGORY
Apartments
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The dwellings are organized by a flexible and multifunctional form about a central core of baths that allows natural crossed ventilation while transverse views of the house.
A second skin of translucent white laminated glass in south facade works as a solar filter generating qualified intermediate, luminous, ethereal spaces... agreeable and comfortable.
His first totally glazed skin slips from being a limit to become an extension from the interior towards the exterior.
A communicative building with and unitary treatment but simultaneously neutral, superposes the successive skins generating multiple and changeable reflections of unexpected opaqueness creating atmospheric effect... frivolously and vaporous...
Reflections on the white glass of the sky, the clouds, the sun... extreme delicacy, formal austerity, rigor, eco efficiency, prefabrication, efficiency, exclusion of everything superfluous, purity, neutrality, absence, emptiness, silence, fluency, to non-be, absence of architecture, nothing , to develop imperceptibly.
The building is organized by two communications center that serve two and three apartments per floor. To achieve the area there are two typologies, one oriented north-south with bathrooms in the centre and the other one faced to one facade with water area located inside. The first one has crossed ventilation through opposite fronts, while the second one also have transverse ventilation with perpendicular facades.
