The existing party wall is covered, projecting two series of dwellings that form an interior street, with a third finishing piece that allows the opening of this new urban landscape to the green area located in front of it, completing its integration into the surroundings.
When approaching a project of these characteristics, we prioritize the social nature of the intervention. The aim is to optimize resources, given the low economic cost that its construction and future maintenance must entail (PEM €330/m2). To this end, the disciplinary reflection revolves around finding a typology that is affordable for the user and, in addition to being a model adapted to the environment (urban, social, cultural, physical…), is capable of reducing its energy demand as much as possible, both in the construction phase and throughout its useful life.
An effort is made to minimize the architectural presence, stripping down the construction, enveloping it in a continuous white skin that generates habitable spaces between brick walls of high thermal inertia which, when displaced, create a play of volumes that connects with both abstract architectural images and those drawn from local constructive tradition.
The typology, along with the passive systems designed, are the fundamental aspects of the project: compact dwellings between party walls, with high thermal inertia (brick load-bearing walls) and protection from solar radiation on the roof and facade.