SENIOR COHOUSING
arqbag
ARCHITECTS
Arqbag
STRUCTURAL CONSULTANTS
Sergi Díaz Valdivia, Quim Escoda Llorenç
COLABORATORS
Esther Orús Alcalde, Carmen Bodelón De Frutos, Toni Quirant Garrido
MANUFACTURERS
Persiana Barcelona, Alcubierre, Coeco, Durany, Graphenstone, Gutex
ARCHITECTS
Bernat Colomé Franco, Marc Díaz Gallego, Jordi Mitjans, Simona Cerri, Adrià Vilajoana, Alfonso Godoy
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT AND DIRECTOR OF WORKS EXECUTION
Rafel Casanovas i Peñalver
PHOTOGRAPHS
Marc Díaz
AREA
302 m²
YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Guimerà, Spain
CATEGORY
Adaptive Reuse, Coliving
Text description provided by architect.
The project proposes the rehabilitation of an agricultural warehouse, reprogrammed as a "senior" cohabitation. In order to accommodate two-family units in the same building, the lifestyle of each individual family was studied.
This allowed us to plan and reorganize the spaces according to each use, specific to the degree of collectivization required at each moment.
Individual, couple, collective, and even neighborhood spaces were incorporated.
In order to solve the scale transition from warehouse to cohousing, the multiplicity of use spaces, and the gradients of privacy, the project proposes the insertion of a central equipped block.
This new element permits the reconfiguration of the pre-existing open space into multiple subspaces, which are distributed both in plan and in section.
The nucleus is resolved by using a wall of compacted earth blocks (CEB).
The block is distributed through 3 large units adapted to the program; it generates open spaces for storage or facilities, enclosed spaces with their own program, and passage spaces that interconnect or separate areas. .
At the same time, in order not to alter the original stone walls, the block concentrates all the installations of the cohousing
In terms of comfort, this large earth block provides a high hygroscopic property, which compensates the low capacity of existing stone walls to humidity regulation.
In addition, it compensates for part of the thermal inertia that is lost through the thermal insulation of the existing façades on its interior side.
