Social Housing Rehabilitation in El Pópulo

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Social Housing Rehabilitation in El Pópulo

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2007: Rehabilitación

Stakeholders

  • Architect: MGM morales-giles-mariscal

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Cadiz
Country/Region: Cádiz, Spain

Description

The programme was to rehabilitate an old building with multiple historical layers in the centre of Cádiz, which was already occupied by several families.In order to provide these families with decent housing while at the same time conserve the morphology of the building, the design strategy focused on the refurbishment of the ground and first floors, above which the new architecture took shape. Other conditioning factors such as maintenance of the net floor area and the facade height, led to the development of five apartment units with space for the neighbourhood association on the ground floor and set-back attic additions on the roof. An offshoot of the building that connects to the plaza adjacent to the cathedral has recuperated its street-like character and is now a two-storey private street, which like the patio, has large windows of varying shapes and sizes with movable plywood shutters, creating an interior urban landscape.

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Herold Social Housing

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Herold Social Housing

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2007: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: MGM morales-giles-mariscal

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Cadiz
Country/Region: Cádiz, Spain

Description

This social housing project includes 100 apartments of various sizes, with the ground floor reserved for handicapped individuals and street-level shops. The design of the three buildings was influenced by the site conditions and their integration into the urban space. The apartments are accessed from a public garden at ground level, and they are distributed along exterior walkways. The design takes into account different orientations and seasons, with north-facing rooms designed for thermal isolation and south-facing rooms featuring glazed living areas and balconies with sliding ETFE curtains for winter use. Solar thermal panels on the roof provide 65% of the hot water for the bathrooms. The project embodies urban and ecological principles to create a new housing solution. The programme for this social housing project required 100 different-sized apartments with the ground floor for handicapped persons and shops at the street level. Located on land left-over from the Herold Hospital in Paris’ 19th arrondissement, numerous site factors conditioned the design of the three buildings, which led to thinking about them as resultant elements from the urban space. Accessed from a ground-level public garden, the apartments are distributed along exterior walkways. Since they face different orientations, their design has been adapted to the different seasons: rooms oriented towards the north have small openings and greater thermal isolation, while those facing south have glazed living rooms and bedrooms adjoining balconies that feature transparent sliding ETFE curtains, permitting wintertime use. Roof mounted solar thermal panels produce 65% of the hot water for the bathrooms. The project is thus the result of urban and ecological principles taken as the conceptual starting point in the creation of a new urban housing response.

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