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.
