Country/Region: Spain

Housing in Trondheim Illa de la Llum

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Housing in Trondheim Illa de la Llum

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

The Illa de la Llum project is located at the intersection of Avinguda Garcia Faria and Selva de Mar, forming part of the Diagonal Mar operation. The site has limited space and follows a rigid urban plan. The towers maximize the available area, allowing for varied dimensions and layouts. The towers incorporate deliberate excavations and recesses to reduce excess height and create connections between neighboring towers. Inside the towers, strips define the corridors, utility spaces, and dwellings, offering flexibility in layout. Continuous terraces project outward from the habitable strip.

Date

  • 2005: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Clotet, Paricio i Assoc. S.L.

Location

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

Description

The project consists of a set of dwellings standing on the intersection between Avinguda Garcia Faria and Selva de Mar, known as the Illa de la Llum (Island of Light), and forms part of the Diagonal Mar operation. The urban plan clearly defines a 32,940 m2 site available for construction to be shared among three buildings. Everything is very precise, with little leeway for manoeuvre, and responds to a highly debatable model that disregards links between facades and the street.

This project clearly rejects the compositional obsession with slenderness, as if it were an unquestionable compositional value. Indeed, the towers take maximum advantage of available ground area, thereby making it possible to build dwellings of different dimensions and distributions. They reach the compulsory height and the excess buildability that would result from all floors being identical is reduced and adjusted by means of deliberate excavations , recesses that increase as height is gained and which are conducted in areas that look northwards, zones without sea views or else at the points of greatest proximity between the towers.

In the towers and around each nucleus of stairs and lifts a series of strips have been defined that totally encompass the nucleus in the big tower and only three of its sides in the smaller one. The nearest is the access corridor to the dwellings. The next one, 50 cm wide, accommodates pillars and utilities. The broadest strip, 8 m wide, houses the dwellings, in which the total absence of fixed vertical elements makes a great variety of distributions possible. Another 50-cm strip once again accommodates utilities, structure and the walls that separate the habitable strip from the continuous terraces that project 3 m outwards.

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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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Fabra & Coats & Social Housing

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Fabra & Coats & Social Housing

Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2019: Rehabilitación

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Roldán+Berengué, arqts.

Location

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

Description

The transformation project of the warehouse building of the old industrial complex of Fabra & Coats in Barcelona is included in the process of reconversion of this textile complex of the XIX and XX centuries to incorporate it to the "BCN creation factories" network.
The intervention in the building activates all the elements of the original building creating the new program, and reuses its physical, spatial and historical qualities to make the new construction more efficient and to reinforce the character of the original building.

The original building is 100m long, where the first decision was to bring the value of its maximum dimension, which is the length. We access through the center creating an interior square where the promenade of the interior stairs begins in diagonal double ascending. The original building is communicated physically and visually from the ground level until the roof structure. This vestibule also connects the building to Parellada Street and the Fabra & Coats complex square. This new communal space is the new structural contribution to the original building.

The new construction is by assemblage, it is a dry construction with just few materials, as in the original industrial building. Wood is used in all its forms: solid, agglomerated, cross laminated… Materials are joined as if it was a textile. To sew and un-sew, the new construction by its character and assemblage, can be assembled and disassembled, so it is “reversible”. The building, in the future, as a heritage element, can return to its original form of 1905, and the material used in its construction can be recycled.

Structural reuse of the two inner floors of the building, using them without any reinforcement (load capacity of 1,100kg/m2) to support on both floors the two new levels of housing. We convert two floors into four, to reach this we use a wooden structure, because it is 5 times lighter than a steel structure. The wooden frame structure is a translation of the old steel structures used as shelves for the storage of the threads.

Façade and roof of the building as a thermic buffer for the housing units. The new housing units are placed separated from the façade and the original roof of the building, with a new wooden façade.

The in-between space is created to circulate the air; therefore, the housing units do not require the air conditioning the most part of the year. The 45cm brick wall and the ceramic tile roof of the original building provide its thermal and shading properties to the new interior building, while maintaining its presence as an interior façade of the communal spaces. In this in-between space are the inner streets to access to the houses, identifying the old path of the thread packages through the crane bridge and the conveyor belts. The former textile complex of Fabra & Coats in Barcelona, built between the 19th and 20th centuries, is being gradually recovered to incorporate it into the “BCN creation factories” network. More than 28,000m2 in public buildings and social housing will be added to the Sant Andreu neighborhood.

One side of the building, the result of an extension on 1950, has been destined for the headquarters of the “Colla Castellera Jove” in Barcelona. The adjacent building, 100 m long, has been transformed into a complex of 46 social housing units.

To configure the main space, the training room for human towers (10x10x10 m), is based on the analysis of human towers: pyramidal structures that work, ideally, with pure compression. Due to their operation, they fill the space, creating an empty space around them.

The new structure is conceived in a complementary way to a human tower: it works like a shell, creating an empty space inside. The upper floor under roof is a three-dimensional suspended structure that does not make its operation evident.

The project combines for the first time the rehabilitation of industrial heritage, the creation of social housing and wood construction. The elastic joints of the new elements resolve the compatibility between the two constructions and achieve acoustic comfort in homes that is higher than the standard.

Conditions
Minimum dimensions in construction solutions
Economic limit: PEM € 1,021 / m2
Reversible construction in response to equity

Implemented solutions
Light construction
Activate the building
Elastic joints in new construction

Achievements:
Rehabilitation in place of new construction:
Reduction of consumption in construction
Reduced demand in operation

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Conferencias VI Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura ‘La ciudad que queremos’

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Conferencias VI Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura ‘La ciudad que queremos’

Mismatches
Policies and regulations
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

La Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad organiza un Congreso Internacional de Arquitectura de forma bianual en Pamplona desde 2010.

Date

  • 2022:

Stakeholders

  • Promotor: La Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad

Location

Continent: Europe
City: Pamplona
Country/Region: Pamplona

Description

La sexta edición del Congreso, bajo el título ‘La ciudad que queremos’, y dirigido por el arquitecto y sociólogo José María Ezquiaga, mantiene la línea de investigación y debate sobre el fenómeno urbano. Con la participación de figuras consolidadas del pensamiento y la práctica sobre la ciudad junto con representantes de las nuevas y de las futuras generaciones, buscando un intercambio de experiencias y deseos que se traduzca en ideas y propuestas para un mejor futuro para todos. Incluye conferencias de Anne Lacaton, Joan Clos, Mohan Munasinghe, Feniosky Peña-Mora, Mª Áneles Durán o 300.000 km/s.

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Bilbao, Spain

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Bilbao.Spain

Bilbao, Spain

Mismatches
Urban Design

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2005: Construction

Stakeholders

  • Architect: Luis Díaz Mauriño
  • Architect: Eduardo Belzunce
  • Architect: Francisco Burgos
  • Architect: Jose María de Lapuerta
  • Architect: Juan García Millán

Location

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

Description

The site was a former iron mine, with a topography that had slopes of up to 50 meters, surrounded by a disorganized and degraded residential outskirts to the north and by the channelled Nervión River and the Miraflores peninsula and Miribilla to the south. The frontier character of the site and its ambiguous and hybrid qualities are preserved. A comb-shaped footprint of several towers separated by lookouts works as a visual filter from the urban environment behind, generating a new façade for the city, introducing order and repetition. In addition, is planned a low-rise, introverted, residential core surrounded by a taller permeter dedicated to offices, amenities, retail areas and civic buildings.

The perimeter acts both as a connector to the neighbourhood and the old road to San Sebastian, as well as a visual and acoustic barrier. On the other hand, the existing neighbourhood, which is very dense, needed porosity, so two sun-filled squares with views were preserved with the open spaces between towers acting as urban lookouts. In the core of the cluster, the buildings rise from a carpet of green spaces that act as intermediary spaces.

Six residential buildings spill randomly throughout the hill, almost like a river, without subordinating themselves to parallel alignments, but controlled by a rational geometry. The buildings, following the idea of long-tiered-sigzag, generate a series of exterior voids that get narrower and wider, creating an intermediate scale of communal spaces.

The mixed typology of the buildings combines the volume of the single-family row housing and the functionality of a social housing building with access through corridors. Each unit is accessed from the outside, with independence, provided by its individuality, but stacked one on top of each other, using the collective logic. The longitudinal orientation of the building, approximately north-south, determines that the access corridors, where the entry halls, kitchens, laundry rooms, and bathrooms are facing, need to look north. The south façade, facing the ideal sun conditions and views, is then dedicated to bedrooms and living rooms.
“End and top off the edge of town. It was the responsibility of the proposed architecture to order against confusion”.
“Convert the upper street to a viewer street. The buildings will mark, surprise with different views different from the other side”.
“Project houses to look to the landscape and noon, the park and the streets”.
“It is about Sewing vertically, assigning that role to the own building”.

The result all the premises of the place and the intentions on the project are five residential towers perched on a stepped base (due to the sharp slope) that absorbs all the sector garages which is accessed by a new street below; intermediate semi-public squares looking at the views across the Nervión; all the living rooms facing the midday sun.

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Badajoz, Spain

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Badajoz, Spain

Mismatches
Policies and regulations
Financing
Urban Design
Promotion and production

Main objectives of the project

Date

  • 2023: En proceso

Stakeholders

  • Promotor: Department of Housing and Architecture, Junta de Extremadura

Location

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

Description

This project is an open negotiation between the different parties involved in the development of the city.

The development of the project began with the the commissioning of the first detailed diagnostic study of the whole area which identified the restoration of the Santa Engracia UVA as a priority intervention, so much for its urgency as its viability.

Plan Especial de Reforma Interior (P.E.R.I) establishing the framework for planning the restoration of the district and process of regeneration.

The PERI proporsals for the programme, public, space and building the neighbourhood were organized around eight strategically prioritized lines, which sought to restructure the neighbourhood and recover its relationships.

Strategic lines that link neighbourhood-inhabitants: identity, generational change and accessibility.
Strategic lines in relation to the cultural environment: visibility, recuperation and connection with the city and territory.
Strategic lines in relation to the natural environment: sustainability and landscape.
The project is included in a life fund programme and is currently in development.

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