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.

Hostalets Social Centre & Town Hall

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Hostalets Social Centre & Town Hall

Policies and regulations
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

The program required including the outbuildings of a civic center on a plot of land on the outskirts of Hostalets de Balenyà.

Date

  • 1994: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Enric Miralles
  • Arquitecto: Carme Pinós

Location

City: Balenyà
Country/Region: Spain

Description

The building is conceived so that it turns its back on the village and creates a transparent façade that generates its own public space, on the other side of the street. The smaller outbuildings of the program (workshops, classrooms, offices) are placed suspended on the upper floors, formed by a system of lattice beams that open in a fan and have the height of one floor. This fan determines the interior garden and the great void below, which is an event hall for 300 people. The program is interpreted hierarchically and in combination with the reading of the site, so that the building could host programs with a similar cast. The access stairs to the attic embrace the building on both sides, one on the inside and the other on the outside.

House and Studio for a Photographer

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House and Studio for a Photographer

Policies and regulations
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

For some time the architect helped his brother, a fashion photographer, look for a site in which to build his residence and workplace. They finally found it in Llampaies, a village of the Alt Empordà region in Catalonia. It consisted of a threshing circle shaped enclosure containing a derelict square hayloft built of stone facing the sun at noon.

Date

  • 1994: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Carles Ferrater
  • Arquitecto: Joan Guibernau

Location

City: Saus, Camallera i Llampaies
Country/Region: Spain

Description

The first decision was to keep and rebuild the old construction, and to elaborate the project from the fragmentation, in a way similar to vernacular architecture. The old building, almost five meters high, would receive a new-pitched roof hidden within its walls, becoming the living room of the house. Next to it, and slightly rotated, a new cubic volume houses the night areas. A lower volume which connects the other two houses the entries, acting as hallway and dinner, with the kitchen at the back.. Its roof surrounded by the walls of the other two buildings can be used as solarium.

The large blind box used as photographic studio emerges at the back of the site, taking advantage of a three-meter drop in level to shelter the cluster. This space, whose dimensions were determined by my brother, is structured from its roof section, allowing an almost central position of the light catchment area as well as maximum height and depth of field at the back of the grey finished studio. At the opposite end a clerestory window facing West will flood the studio with warm sunset light. A series of cable driven shades will provide control of the natural daylight.

A small wooden volume used as guesthouse rises at the southern end of the patio garden, in front of the other buildings. It receives light through a sliding window overlooking the veranda and a small “crack” in the roof over the bathroom.
The architectural intervention lies in the external treatment; the old fence around the site gets covered with ivy and two small groups of trees, seven facing east and seven facing west, contribute to provide a sense of magic like the one seen in the old photograph of this place which was often used as setting for the town holiday.
The materials used, fiber/cement panels, concrete beams, steel sections, lime based renders, brickwork, block work, wooden panels, or in situ concrete floors, will retain their original texture. The technical installations are not embedded in the walls, instead they run between the inner load bearing walls ant the outer sheathing, Heating is radiant type, using the concrete floor as heat storage.
Some mobile elements such as sliding windows/doors, counter weighted sashes or louvers activated by compressed air pistons, help to relate the interior to the exterior forming an intermediate space like a porch or terrace.

Secondary Education Institute Pere Fontdevila

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Secondary Education Institute Pere Fontdevila

Financing
Urban Design
Ownership and tenure

Main objectives of the project

The school is located on the edge of the village near the river and with good views in all directions. The approach of the building as a square floor volume with a large central courtyard responds to these conditions.

Date

  • 1992: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Josep Llinás Carmona

Location

Continent: Europe
Country/Region: Spain

Description

The arrangement around the courtyard with 4 lateral volumes slightly turning and opening up to the different sides, also allows a correct relationship between the corridors and the workplaces. The school appropriates the qualities of the place by enclosing an outside part in a courtyard, so that it gains light, a good temperature and sunshine. Although the compactness of the volume makes it possible to distinguish the school from the surrounding houses, the monolithic character of the volume has been broken by the annexation of a single-storey body towards the access area. In addition, the horizontal profile of the building plays with the background of the sky and the broken volumes which create terraces on different floors. The project takes advantage of the good coherence that has been established in this case between the location and the proposed program.
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REGENERACIÓN URBANA DE UN BARRIO COMPLETO DE MADRID

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REGENERACIÓN URBANA DE UN BARRIO COMPLETO DE MADRID

Main objectives of the project

Se trata de un caso de regeneración urbana integral, es decir, en el cual se aúna la rehabilitación de las edificaciones con le regeneración de los espacios libres degradados para reactivar la actividad en el barrio, mejorando la afección y vinculación al mismo de sus habitantes.

Date

Stakeholders

Location

City: Madrid
Country/Region: Madrid, Spain

Description

El barrio del Aeropuerto, en el Distrito de Barajas, se trata de un barrio donde conviven diferentes usos, predominando en un 60% del residencial, con manzanas ocupadas por edificios de tipología de bloque abierto, de tres o cinco alturas con amplias zonas ajardinadas; mientras que para el sector terciario existen superficies destinadas a equipamientos y al sector servicios modernos edificios destinados a uso de oficinas o el sector hotelero, además de naves industriales. Se construye en los años 60, en base a un anteproyecto redactado en 1958 por el arquitecto D. Luis Martínez Lebrato y amparado por el Plan de Urgencia Social de Madrid en el año 1957 que permitía la construcción en todo el ámbito del Plan General con la condición de efectuar una cesión del 35% del suelo. El área ocupa una superficie de 5,7 Ha., tiene una población aproximada de 1.500 habitantes (con una densidad media de 263 hab/ha.) y se caracteriza por ser un área homogénea en cuanto a tipologías edificatorias y sistemas constructivos. El conjunto está integrado por 34 bloques, con 567 viviendas. En origen, era una barriada alejada del centro de Madrid donde el alcantarillado estaba incompleto en la mayoría de las calles y los residentes tenían que utilizar el arroyo de Rejas, que circulaba al descubierto, hasta que el Ayuntamiento lo enterró como consecuencia de unas riadas. El alumbrado público se instaló en 1969; las goteras y las grietas eran causa de desalojos de urgencia.

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¿Por qué invertir en el mundo rural? – El caso de la Sierra de la Demanda

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¿Por qué invertir en el mundo rural? – El caso de la Sierra de la Demanda

Mismatches
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2022:

Stakeholders

  • AGALSA

Location

City: Burgos
Country/Region: Burgos, Spain

Description

AGALSA – Sierra de la Demanda es el grupo de acción local que actúa en el territorio de la Sierra de la Demanda burgalesa (sureste de Burgos), en donde viene trabajando en el desarrollo socioeconómico de la zona desde el año 1994, apoyándose en el concurso, participación y colaboración de todos los agentes públicos y privados. Como Grupo de Acción Local es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro, en nuestro caso además declarada de utilidad pública y en cuyos órganos de dirección y participación están integrados y representados la mayoría de los grupos de interés locales (entidades locales, agentes económicos, sociales, culturales, etc…). Queremos facilitar que el sector inmobiliario pueda proveer de vivienda asequible en nuestro territorio compuesto por 114 pueblos en una extensión de 1.949 km2.

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Ciclo “Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles de Canarias. Acceso a la vivienda”.

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Ciclo “Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles de Canarias. Acceso a la vivienda”.

Mismatches
Policies and regulations
Financing
Urban Design
Promotion and production
Ownership and tenure

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2021:

Stakeholders

  • Vicente Boissier Domínguez
  • Carmelo Ramírez Rodríguez
  • Candelaria Delgado Toledo
  • José Antonio Aguilera Núñez

Location

City: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Country/Region: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Description

Diversificar los programas de vivienda pública. Equilibrar la tenencia de vivienda en propiedad y en alquiler. Mejorar el mercado del alquiler, cuantitativa y cualitativamente. Evitar la gentrificación que a menudo producen las políticas de rehabilitación, regeneración y renovación urbanas. Garantizar la coherencia y necesaria conciliación entre los planes y programas de vivienda. Garantizar la cohesión social. Mejorar las condiciones de financiación para el acceso a la vivienda. Se trata de identificar los efectos y consecuencias de la emergencia climática en nuestras islas. Cada tema del ciclo proporciona material de debate sobre las metas más relevantes para nuestro contexto geográfico de las establecidas en el ODS-11, Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles. Temario del ciclo: Se basa en las metas ODS-11, se han agrupado algunas con características comunes y se han creado 7 bloques temáticos y una última jornada de conclusiones, celebrada durante la séptima Semana de la Arquitectura organizada por el Colegio de Arquitectos de Gran Canaria, 2021. Acceso a la vivienda Transporte público Urbanización inclusiva y sostenible Patrimonio natural y cultural Planificación de infraestructuras sostenibles Acceso a zonas verdes y espacios públicos seguros Vínculos zonas urbanas, periurbanas y rurales Conclusiones durante la semana de la Arquitectura

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PROMOCIÓN DE VIVIENDAS LA ROSILLA 4

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PROMOCIÓN DE VIVIENDAS LA ROSILLA 4

Main objectives of the project

Date

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: AYBAR.MATEOS.ARQUITECTOS.

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Madrid
Country/Region: Madrid

Description

Una vez alcanzados los estándares propios de una sociedad moderna en confort, comodidad y salubridad en las viviendas, tanto por la normativa como por la industria, debemos evolucionar y aportar nuevos niveles de calidad en lo espacial, lo material y en sus posibilidades de evolución. Es necesario generar propuestas capaces de adecuarse a los nuevos retos sociales y los tipos de núcleos familiares que conforman el tejido social en una exploración de lo cotidiano. La parcela RC 4 se sitúa en un nuevo desarrollo urbanístico denominado APE 18.05 “La Rosilla” en Madrid junto al distrito de Vallecas. La Rosilla se encuentra en el triángulo formado por la Carretera de Villaverde a Vallecas, la avenida Mayorazgo y la calle Castejón de Henares. El proyecto busca generar una pieza de transición entre el espacio urbano difuso que lo caracteriza y el nuevo parque situado al sur. Las piezas se organizan en dos escalas alternas, la que agota la altura máxima de ocho plantas y la que cuentan con cinco plantas. Su colocación ortogonal permite una heterogeneidad en la percepción desde la vía pública y una clara discontinuidad en los planos de fachadas. La limitación normativa de profundidad de los edificios a 12 metros y los límites de factores de relación entre zonas comunes y privadas aconsejan organizar el conjunto de accesos a las viviendas mediante núcleos para dos viviendas en el edificio longitudinal y núcleo para 4 en el vertical. En la búsqueda de la mejora de estos aspectos, se organizan viviendas de configuración flexible que permite una estancia pasante que contiene la cocina y el estar claramente separados y un vestíbulo con almacenamiento, de manera paralela a este espacio, se organizan las zonas de noche con los dormitorios. Esta estructura permite incluir 71 viviendas protegidas de precio básico (VPPB), 3 de ellas para PMR. Los edificios dispondrán de un zócalo denso y rugoso construido mediante fabrica en aparejos con volumen, mientras que el resto de las envolventes de los edificios se construyen mediante un sistema SATE que optimiza el comportamiento energético del mismo. A lo largo del jardín se generan unos núcleos de actividad formados por un espacio de pavimento blando en áreas de juegos infantiles, unos bancos y una zona de plantación de plantas tapizantes y árboles que desarrollen gran porte y hoja caduca, permitiéndose la plantación al liberar el espacio bajo rasante el ámbito central de la parcela.

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CARABANCHEL 34

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CARABANCHEL 34

Main objectives of the project

Visitamos un edificio residencial multifamiliar de 25 viviendas de 1, 2 y 3 dormitorios y zonas comunes construidas bajo los estándares de Passivhaus y proyectada conforme al CTE.

Date

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: Ruiz-Larrea & Asociados
  • Constructor: MARCO OBRA PÚBLICA, S.A.

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Madrid
Country/Region: Madrid

Description

La visita que se propone a este edificio promovido íntegramente por la EMVS, es posiblemente una visita al futuro. Carabanchel 34 es una apuesta absolutamente innovadora, un tipo de construcción de vanguardia que agrupa las viviendas ordenadamente en una pastilla edificatoria con doble orientación. La vivienda de 1 dormitorio dispone de zona de día formada por cocina, tendedero y estar comedor, y la zona de noche que la integran un baño y un dormitorio. La vivienda de 2 dormitorios dispone de zona de día formada por cocina, tendedero y estar-comedor y la zona de noche que la integran un baño y dos dormitorios. La vivienda de 3 dormitorios dispone de zona de día formada por cocina, tendedero y estar-comedor y la zona de noche que la integran un dormitorio principal con baño incorporado y dos dormitorios y un baño. En nuestra visita al edificio, recorreremos tanto las zonas comunes, como una vivienda de las diferentes tipologías. Las características del edificio proyectado son: Alto grado de confort térmico interior, tanto en la estación fría como en la cálida. Rango de confort de 20-25˚C. Aire de calidad excepcional garantizado durante 24 horas al día. Calidad en la construcción para evitar o minimizar los puentes térmicos, infiltraciones no deseadas, condensaciones superficiales etc. Precios asequibles de construcción. Reducción de las facturas de consumo energético. Durabilidad en el tiempo de las soluciones constructivas. Garantía de un buen funcionamiento durante muchos años con medidas mínimas de mantenimiento. No requiere comportamientos específicos del usuario para lograr un correcto funcionamiento. Niveles elevados de satisfacción por parte del usuario / propietario.

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Collective housing for elderly people and civic and health centre

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Collective housing for elderly people and civic and health centre

Urban Design Environments Equity

Main objectives of the project

The project comprises 105 senior citizens' housing units and features a double-height plinth with a Health Centre and Senior Community Centre. The design fosters a dynamic community and preserves the existing social network of the neighborhood. Located near Glories' square, the project integrates with the urban fabric of Eixample and responds to Diagonal Street. Three housing volumes on top of the plinth accommodate the program. Each building has seven or eight dwellings per floor, connected by a central corridor. Communal spaces include a rooftop terrace, laundry, porch, and patio-solarium. The layout promotes a sense of limitless interconnectedness, with movable walls and open spaces. The construction system incorporates thermal insulation and a district heating system, resulting in high energy efficiency.

Date

  • 2016: Construcción

Stakeholders

  • Arquitecto: peris+toral.arquitectes
  • Arquitecto: Bonell i Gil

Location

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

Description

The project organises 105 senior citizens housing into three volumes spread out, on top of a double-height plinth containing a Health Centre and a Senior Community Centre. The building’s common spaces help to create a dynamic community. The mixed-use of the program enable to preserve the existing social network of the neighbourhood. The project is located near Glories’ square. This plot is within the Eixample’s urban fabric. At the same time, is part of a city block trimmed by Diagonal’s Street trace. One of the main challenges the project had to face was the mixed-use program with different real estate developments: 105 housing for Barcelona’s council, a Health Centre for regional government, a Senior Community Centre for the district and a vehicle impoundment parking for BSM. We opted for a unitary building in order to organise and to encourage different uses but also to accommodate the whole program: a group of three volumes of housing on top of one double-height plinth containing the facilities. By overlapping two different urban strategies, the project is capable of giving response to the surroundings’ complexity. On one hand, the continuous base of the building recognises the grid of the Eixample, by leaning on its alignments. On the other, the housing volumes give continuity to the sequence of nearby isolated blocks in respond to Diagonal Street. The void between these blocks is necessary to filter the public space through and to maintain the global unit. The result is an architectural ensemble that despite its domestic height is able to dialogue with the unique geometry of the high and sharped nearby buildings, joining into a greater scale urban piece of strong identity. Depending on the block, each building has seven or eight dwellings by floor with a central corridor. This walkway enlarges at both ends where it receives daylight. At the top floor of each building there are a communal laundry, a covered porch with clothes lines and a patio-solarium with foreseen urban-garden. At the plinth’s roof level, each building has a multi-use room connected directly with the outside terrace enabling the social services managing the building to organise workshops or activities. This communal terrace, located at the treetops’ height and endowed with benches, is opened to the surrounding views. It integrates the three blocks into a larger community of neighbours. Considering these are dwellings for elderly, users are meant to spend long periods of time at home and at the building. Thus, communal spaces enhance and enrich the experience of living. This dwelling’s typology is organised around a central core of serving spaces, which is surrounded by the bedroom and the living room, both understood as a continuous and flexible space articulated by the terrace. This layout enables to perceive space as limitless, not enclosed but interconnected. The bathroom segregates into two pieces: a more private area and an open space. Spaces connect or segregate through large sliding doors, like movable walls. If they are all open, space flows around the core. Depending on whether doors either open or close, space is transformed so it can be differently used. The corner’s typology repeats the same scheme of serving spaces. The entrance threshold is enlarged to host the dinning room, linked by a window to the kitchen. The sights connect with the exterior through a large series of frames. The enfilade of doors and windows increase the porosity of space; and as a result, space seems larger than it is. Rooms are never enclosed, they always vanish into neighbouring spaces slightly introduced for the occupant to imagine. Tangent views flow around the core, linking contiguous spaces. The dwellings’s structure consists on perimeter walls and pillars always located on the in-between apartments walls so that a free plant is guaranteed. It is at the ground floor level and by using cross-beams where the structure turns into an orthogonal grid of pillars of 7,5×7,5m for the parking located at the lower floors. The construction system of the housing façade is different than the one for the plinth. The one of the dwellings consists in External Thermal Insulation Composite System (ETICS) improving the thermal inertia of the building, whereas in the lower floors Glass Reinforced Concrete (GRC) is used. Both systems guarantee a thermal break, providing maximum comfort. The building is connected to a district heating system, providing sanitary hot water and central heating. Inside the houses, we opted for a low-temperature underfloor-heating system in order to obtain greater comfort with less consumption. Due to all these resources, the building is qualified with an A for European energy labeling.

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