Private Collective Housing, Madrid

Private Collective Housing, Madrid

Projects 4

Delivered: 2005 Spring

Tutor: Antonio Vélez

TU: Ynzenga

This new residential development of thirty one dwellings, facilities and two little shops forms part of the rehabilitation project of the downtown Madrid. The five-storey building is raised up between two existing one’s. Thus, the project has only two elevations: one to a traffic road and other to a pedestrian street. There is a three meters (nine, eighty-five feet) difference level between the streets, and are separated fifty meters (a hundred and sixty-four feet).

The large length of the site forces the design to make an inner courtyard. This courtyard houses the two exterior circulation cores, located close to the existing buildings end walls. The pedestrian access to the building is prompted by two streets, but in different level. The vehicles access is located in traffic road and leads to the single-storey car park by an L-shaped ramp.

The programme is divided in two bands, flushed with the streets. Owing to the difference in floor level, the band storeys are not at the same height. The main orientation of the issues is northwest-southeast. In ground floor there are shops and the gym. Upper plans houses are designed in four types of intern dwellings with removable wood walls. The surface of this dwellings is from 30 m² (325 ft²) in lofts to 120 m² (1290 ft²) in four-bedroom flats.