Trinitat Nova Social housing
Barcelona
The project consists of 96 rental social housing units between the streets of Aiguablava and Palamós in the neighborhood of Trinitat Nova. The proposal is sensitive to the newly arranged reality: the building conceptualized as a bridge within the park, its passage is generously dimensioned, voids in the facade are opened in order to give visual continuity to all the floors, the vertical cores perpetuate the green throughout the building and a landscaped roof with vegetable gardens have been planned.
The building acknowledges the different orientations generated by the regulatory requirements by incorporating voids that allow the typologies with a single orientation to enjoy natural cross ventilation as well. The entire proposal is structured within a grid of 3.40 × 3.40m, giving order and consistency to the typological diversity.
The housing units have been designed following criteria of flexibility and non-hierarchization; all the rooms are double, thus allowing the adaptation of the house to the changing needs of its users and responding to the variety of family units present in our society.
Regarding sustainability criteria, we propose to reach the NZEB or nearly zero energy building standards. It is necessary to adopt a design attitude that places the energy vector at the root of the project. In this sense, the proposal establishes a basis of passive architecture. The volumetric complexity of the planning regulations and the topography invite us to imagine an intervention on the facade that provides uniformity to the whole volume. This is the reason why the terraces are being recast and a continuous skin with different degrees of porosity is the one that gives a solution to the movable solar shades.
| Location | Barcelona |
| Year | 1st Prize competition 2018, Construction 2023 |
| Surface | 12.325 m² |
| Budget | 11.254.892 € |
| Promoter | IMHAB, Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge i Rehabilitació de Barcelona |
| Team | Co-author EAS Estudio Álvarez-Sala. Jorge Blasco, Elena Poropat, Irene Gascón, architecture. Audioscan, acoustics design. Oriol Vidal, facilities engineering. Bernuz-Fernández, structure engineering. Estudi Ramon Folch & Societat Orgànica, Sustainability design. Coderch acoustic engineering. |
Pere Matutes Social housing
Ibiza
The project modulates the proposal on a grid of 3.00 × 3.40 m, which orders and guides the placement of the pieces that compose the different rooms of the apartments. The maximization of the facade development guarantees maximum sun exposure, ventilation and views.
The project recovers the logic of the rural house, the icon of traditional architecture of Ibiza
The permeable ground floor generates a continuum of green spaces that pass through a generous interior courtyard, in between the big scale of the rear public space and the entrance to the building itself.
The common spaces as the houses are organized by a mesh with no hierarchies, which allows for flexible and adaptable spaces, inclusive apartments that enjoy spatial versatility. All the housing open up both towards the street and the interior courtyard, generating cross ventilation – a layout which gives a solution to all the typologies required by the program.
The project has been developed following the tradition of the rural house: the typological solution based on the association of pieces, the use of proximity and sustainable solutions, the skin of the building, resembling fenced gates, is solved through the change in scale of the traditional fabric.
Passive energy saving measures are valued, prioritizing passive systems over active systems.
| Location | Ibiza |
| Year | 2018 competition |
| Surface | 2.424 m² |
| Promoter | IBAVI – Institut Balear de L’habitatge |
| Team | Irene Gascón, Maria Velázquez, architecture. Jordi Pellerejo, rendering. |