Continent: Europe

Orcasitas Settlement

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Orcasitas Settlement

Financing Public funding Sustainable development financing
Urban Design Environments Quality Liveability Inclusion Equity Regulación Técnica Participatory processes

Main objectives of the project

Improving energy efficiency and comfort in buildings and housing

Date

Stakeholders

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Madrid
Country/Region: Madrid, Spain

Description

The case of the Poblado Dirigido de Orcasitas is one of these good examples. Thanks to the impetus of the Guetaria Neighbourhood Association of the Poblado Dirigido and the strong commitment and leadership of its president, Manuela Navarro, 107 blocks of flats and 62 single-family houses are immersed in an interesting refurbishment process with the aim of improving their energy efficiency. Fifty buildings have already been completely refurbished, 16 are currently under construction and the rest are awaiting the start of work, which in all cases will be carried out with European aid and subsidies (Next Generation funds) and from Madrid City Council. 3,127 families in this poor neighbourhood in the south of Madrid will benefit from this urban transformation, improving their quality of life and reducing energy-related costs. So far, 1,640 families have already benefited. Today, the Poblado Dirigido de Orcasitas has become the first near-zero energy neighbourhood in Spain. Thanks to the mobilisation of the neighbours, the works undertaken to remove parapets, asbestos and install thermal insulation have achieved a 58% reduction in CO2 emissions. Of course, they have also improved the energy rating of the properties from E to C, with a corresponding increase in the value of the homes as a result of the improvements. In addition to the comfort gained in the properties, which maintain a constant temperature of 19 degrees inside, residents report significant savings on their energy bills as a result of the refurbishment work. Between 60 and 70% of these works have been subsidised by the Madrid City Council, while the remaining 30% have been financed by credit institutions, a channel specialised in refurbishment and rehabilitation of UCI (Unión de Créditos Inmobiliarios), an entity specialised in sustainable housing financing.

Links

Authors:

AHA Affordable Housing Activation

Shipboy Housing

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Shipboy Housing

Policies and regulations
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1995: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Ritva Mannersuo
  • Arquitecto: Pekka Helin

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Helsinki
Country/Region: Finland, Helsinki

Description

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Aukrust Center

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Aukrust Center

Policies and regulations
Financing
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1995: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Sverre Fehn

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Norway

Description

The Aukrust Centre lies in the small village of Alvdal, in one of Norway’s picturesque valleys. The building is a museum that houses the work of multimedia artist Kjell Aukrust and the simplicity of the construction forms a background for Aukrust’s diverse artistic expression. The architect conceived the project as responding to the following criteria: ‘The gallery should provide the freedom of a promenade. At any point along this promenade one should feel a connection between the drawings, paintings, stories, figures and the peculiar objects. At the same time one senses these strange figures have grown out from its forests’.
The building is placed in such a way that it constitutes a border between the traffic on one side and the open landscape with its wheat fields and mountains on the other. Constructed as a long gallery divided lengthwise into three areas, its offices, technical rooms, storage, kitchen and workshops lie along the parking lot. The main exhibition hall is located in the middle, while the last area contains special facilities such as the library, the activities room, a café and two auditoriums.
The principle construction is a double concrete wedge that also functions as a channel for carrying the plumbing, ventilation and electricity. The slanting wall facing the parking lot is a post-and-beam structure clad in large slate shingles and the façade towards the valley is built as an interconnecting street of hollow half-circular pine columns. Intersecting this construction, wood panel walls meet at various angles forming cave-like rooms. Between some of the columns, glass openings give a view of the mountains and valley and cast a soft northern light into the gallery.

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Odinsgaard Housing Complex

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Odinsgaard Housing Complex

Mismatches
Policies and regulations
Urban Design Urban fabrics Environments

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1992: Construcción

Stakeholders

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Denmark

Description

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Claude: Housing Complex

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Claude: Housing Complex

Mismatches
Policies and regulations
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1992: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Bernard Huet
  • Arquitecto: Aldo Rossi

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Paris
Country/Region: France, Paris

Description

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Belvedere Village

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Belvedere Village

Policies and regulations
Financing
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1992: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Demetri Porphyrios

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: United Kingdom

Description

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Dianas Have Housing Complex

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Dianas Have Housing Complex

Mismatches
Policies and regulations
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1992: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Michael Sten Johnsen
  • Arquitecto: Svend Algren
  • Arquitecto: Steffen Kragh
  • Arquitecto: Jens Thomas Arnfred

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Denmark

Description

In the spring of 1989, six architectural offices, including Vandkunsten were invited to participate in a design competition for a housing scheme on an extraordinary site near the historical town center of Horsholm.
When the treetops and low foliage block out the view of the surrounding properties, and one stands in one of the small clearings, and almost paradisiacal forest atmosphere can be experienced, one that is rarely found so close to an urban housing area. To be in an almost untouched natural setting, so close to Horsholm’s center is one of the subtle ambiguities of this “place”.
Another ambiguity or perhaps even a double entendre arises from the existing buildings to the east and west of the site. This exclusive property forms a transition between the high-lying, old villas on large tracts to the east, and the very distinctive housing blocks to the west. This situations, in which the new scheme is forced to insert itself as a wedge between two quite different housing types, was a decisive factor in planning the scheme.
Aside from the inspiration provided by the atmosphere of the place, and the respect for the surrounding housing, a number of circumstances had an influence on disposition of the main plan.

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Experimental Housing International

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Experimental Housing International

Policies and regulations
Financing
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1994: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Erick van Egeraat

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Stoccarda
Country/Region: Germany, Stuttgart

Description

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

Senior Housing with regard for Ecology

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Senior Housing with regard for Ecology

Policies and regulations
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1994: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Peter Holst
  • Arquitecto: Karen Kristiansen
  • Arquitecto: Peder Duelund Mortensen

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Copenhagen, Denmark

Description

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona

European Archaeological Center

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European Archaeological Center

Policies and regulations
Financing
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 1995: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Pierre-Louis Faloci

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: France

Description

The European Archaeological Centre is located some 20 km east of Autun close to Bibracte, the ancient hillside that contains the remains of the first Gallic civilisation. The Mont Beuvray site represented an unhoped-for fund of information for archaeologists. The research centre built there comprises three movements: the excavations of the site proper; a scientific base, installed in the village of Glux-en-Glenne, for the scientists and researchers exploiting the finds; and the museum, located on a ridge lower down the slope, which is nourished by their work and presents it to the public. Topographically, these three places represent the points of a triangle and are all within sight of one another. In establishing the territorial, landscape and architectural layout of this project, the architect has taken advantage of this resonance between the functional diagram and the lie of the land.
The importance in archaeological work of themes of hollowness, excavation and foundations also informed the project. A recurrent system serves as a common base to the different projects contained in the programme. Founded on the setting into place of a coherent and unitary architectural language, the system enables the different dimensions to be regulated on the territorial scale as well as in the details. It introduces a pre-established order that guarantees the insertion and identification of the interventions. The inflexions of their specific characteristics regulate the choices made for each project and they enrich and temper whatever rigidity the system might have in appearance.

Authors:

Fundació Mies van der Rohe Barcelona