| 122 units Social Residential | ||
| Building - Urban Expansion 3 | ||
| Carabanchel - Madrid - 2001 | ||
| Architecture: | ||
| Ignacio Lliso / Julián Manzano-Monís | ||
| + José María Mateu | ||
| Restricted Competition - Finalist Project | ||
| Published in: | ||
| 12 Concursos de Arquitectura 2000-2001 | ||
| Volumen II | ||
| Client: EMVs | ||
| Situación: Location ..... google maps | ||
| Carabanchel - Madrid | ||
| Colaboradores: Assistants | ||
| José María Casanova | ||
| Gema García Platero | ||
| A rent-apartment building for young people expects unconventional programs and open spaces. | ||
| A building where shared spaces acquire importance and diversity to promote coexistence, to value itineraries, walkways, open galleries and porches connecting indoor-outdoor spaces, opened to surrounding landscaped areas. | ||
| Eight cubic pieces 13x13 m. release in between this spaces. A visually permeable proposal opposed to large continuous residential facades. | ||
| Every apartment ins cross ventilated, opened to exterior and interior courtyards, proposing a flexible façade solution for natural light control and energy efficiency. | ||
| The seven floors longitudinal piece is supported by four legs and two vertical cores opened to access galleries, including small-size typologies and duplex. Four freestanding 4 levels cubic blocks are located in front of it, where three bedroom apartments are located. | ||
| A single "access control" distributes walking access to building´s cores through landscaped paths in ground floor. Two closed community rooms, opened porches and commercial spaces complete the ground floor program. | ||
| Parking, storerooms and facilities areas are located In the basement. | ||
| The building is the result of a 3,18 meters modulation, with large windows protected by movable and retractable louvers (solar regulators), causing a lively random composition in longitudinal facades. | ||
| The concrete facade walls, the sliding louvres and window shafts openings according to orientation define the section and its spatial articulation with the isolated cubes. | ||
