Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard

Olalquiaga Arquitectos

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
 Madrid, Spain 

CATEGORY
 Housing 

Text description provided by architect.

The housing development in Vallecas is the main urban planning development in Madrid today. It is almost completely organised in a homogenous pattern of closed square blocks of 75 meters a side. The plot for the competition occupies three thirds of such a block.

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán

In the report accompanying the project submitted to the competition we stated:

NO TO THE COMPLETELY CLOSED BLOCK (A)

Yes to an open and fractured block (B) that allows for:

- the search for sunlight through open spaces - different sized spaces with variable heights.

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán

- interior and exterior perspectives that provide diverse, crossed and changing views - diagonals that change with the light and allow diverse approaches and quiet spaces.

The building has 163 one-bedroom apartments, two commercial spaces and parking space.

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán

There are five floors above-ground and two underground floors.

The interior part of the plot has been left free of any underground construction in order to plant a great number of trees that will create a pleasant indoor ambiance.

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán
Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán

Apartments

Access points

Commercial space

The building is distributed in 4 blocs with a central corridor serving as access to the apartments.

Instead of a uniform and monotonous corridor, probably poorly lit and ventilated, we propose, through subtraction and substitution of habitable cells, its widening in some parts as well as the liberating of some habitable modules, in order to achieve greater diversity, the entrance of more natural light and views.

Social Housing in Valleca´s Eco-boulevard
© Miguel de Guzmán


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