Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

SOACIAL HOUSING. BULEVAR DE LA NATURALEZA

Olalquiaga Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Olalquiaga Arquitectos

STATUS
Built

CIVIL ENGINEER
Luis Casas

DESIGN TEAM
Javier Morales Luchena, Jesús Resino, Luis Cristóbal

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Rafael Olalquiaga Soriano, Pablo Olalquiaga Bescós, Alfonso Olalquiaga Bescós

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Madrid, Spain

TYPE
Residential › Multi Unit Housing

Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

The housing development in Vallecas is the main urban planning development in Madrid today. 

Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

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.

– the search for sunlight through open spaces
– different sized spaces with variable heights
– interior and exterior perspectives that provide diverse, crossed and changing views

Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

– 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.

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

Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

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.

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

Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza

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.


Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza
Soacial Housing. Bulevar de la Naturaleza