Sanchinarro Social Housing
The best neighborhood is not made up of singular works. Systematicity, a certain homogeneity, and modest expression are attributes we consider necessary for most residential buildings. Therefore, the repetitive exterior facades with equal openings that do not reveal to the distracted viewer the piece of the dwelling they illuminate, contribute, without renouncing a certain vibration, to forming a calm urban ensemble, while also providing identity to the whole.
Neither a block nor an apple; a completely closed apple can be restrictive. We maintain its morphology by preserving the alignments with the adjacent apples, but its interior garden relates to the street, to the exterior, opening to the south. The significantly helical shape of the complex allows us to maintain the urban scale to the exterior, adding an ordered visual reference to the Sanchinarro neighborhood. The interior, from which all the homes are accessed, has a more domestic scale and is visually enriched by the geometric dissonance of the helicoid.
The garden is continuous, with slightly sloping, slightly broken surfaces and gentle, landscaped hills that create a topography in which a child can play hide-and-seek.
The social housing regulations have determined the solution in terms of its surface area and number of bedrooms. The geometric structure, strictly modulated on a 2.70 m grid, allows the double position of the day spaces, on one façade or the other, thus varying the orientation of the house and a great typological diversity. Cross-ventilation, double circulation, double orientation, and a variety of types have been an inescapable aspiration. 21 types of homes, on one floor, in duplexes, or with a garden, with 2, 3, or 4 bedrooms, exploit their typological possibilities to the fullest.
