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    Assignment A4 Case Study

    ARC-551 Comprehensive Architectural Design Studio


    Case Study by Robby Turck Madrid Public Housing
    Table of Contents Project Details
    1. Response to Past Failures Location: Calle de los Morales 25,, Madrid, Spain
    Client: Empresa Municipal De La Viviende - City of Madrid
    2. Site Size: 236,800 gross sq ft / 21,999 gross sq m
    3. Massing Program: Public housing with 141 two-, three- and four-bedroom units
    4. Section/Parti Design: 2002 - 2006
    5. Exterior Spaces Diagram Construction: 2006

    6. Exterior Space Photos


    7. Lower Private Terraces
    8. Upper Private Terraces Project Credits
    9. Public Plaza Main Entry Architect Paul Gonzales
    10. Public Courtyards Landscape Architect (Morphosis)
    Ana Luengo
    11. Circulation Structural Engineer Carlos Pintor
    General Contractor UICESA
    12. Parking
    13. Trees
    14. Units: 2BR/1-Level
    15. Units: 3BR/2-Levels
    16. Units: 4BR/2-Levels
    17. Other Contemporary Housing
    Sources
    Personal Ownership

    Belongs to Everybody = Belongs to Nobody Personal Ownership

    Treated as one stereotyped group Treated as Individuals

    Monumental, Unrelatable Scale Personal Human Scale

    Rigid Flexible & Adaptable

    Flat Rhythmic

    Danger Security

    Response to Past Failures 1


    "...a responsive alternative to conventional housing blocks..."
    A Typology of Porosity to Realize Social Ideals

    Site 2
    Massing 3
    Section/Parti 4
    Exterior Spaces - Diagram 5
    Exterior Spaces - Photos 6
    Lower Private Terraces 7
    Upper Level Private Terraces 8
    Public Plaza Main Entry 9
    Public Courtyards 10
    Circulation 11
    Parking 12
    Trees 13
    Units: 2 BR/1-Level 14
    Units: 3-BR/2-Levels 15
    Units: 4 BR/2-Levels 16
    The Eco-Boulevard in Vallecas, Spain has a new 163-unit social housing complex to add to its list of accomplishments. The urban
    renewal project boasts a revitalization resume that includes the densification of trees, the reduction of wheeled traffic circulation,
    and the installation of three air trees. Now Olalquiaga Arquitectos has added a large, sustainably-designed, social housing
    complex that while help to engage this pedestrian-centric area with affordable and comfortable housing.

    Read more: Olalquiaga Arquitectos Unveils Social Housing Complex for Eco-Boulevard Near Madrid olalquiaga arquitectos' Social
    Housing Complex in Madrid – Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

    Another Social Housing Complex in Spain 17


    A word from the designers....
    A Typology of Porosity to Realize Social Ideals
    In a suburban Madrid neighborhood of conventional, anonymous housing blocks,
    The model we developed in the Madrid Public Housing, located in the PAU we devised a typology of porosity to suit the social ideals of this project type. As
    of Carabanchel, provides a responsive alternative to conventional housing an alternative to towering blocks of faceless units, this project explores a radically
    blocks. Instead of a rigid tower structure essentially owned by no one, we different social model that integrates landscape and village topologies. By
    suggested that a rhythmic structure would better resonate with the patterns grafting properties commonly found in detached villas onto this low-income
    of a neighborhood. With various levels of social association, housing project we achieved a multi-family living complex with amenities such as
    communication, and organization, the scheme is simple, respectful of loggias, green spaces, and domestically scaled massing that are not normally
    traditional dwelling customs, and flexible enough to be updated and altered found in public housing in Spain.
    as needed or desired. Changing the typology of housing is a slow process;
    however, it is faster and more effective than changing an entire New Town A layer of landscape overlaid upon a façade composed of a series of open
    configuration. spaces and idiosyncratic punctures combine to break down the institutional
    nature of the public housing project. The basic parti is an extruded “J”: a low-rise
    Breaking down the institutional nature of the public housing project, the “village” building, flanked by a tall, slender bar to the North and a lower multi-level
    basic parti is a low-rise J form in section, arranged in series of spaces to bar building to the South. Open spaces occur on three different scales: small,
    evoke a village. Loggias and green spaces for the domestically scaled domestic patios inside the individual residential units, mid-sized public courtyards
    massing afford community-oriented amenities, with private and public that punctuate the low residential structure, and the large, communal, landscaped
    courtyards interacting through shared views. As a prototype for future space, the paseo. The landscaped lattice folds up vertically; like a carpet; plant
    development, the Madrid Public Housing project responds to a variety of growth covers the flat village and climbs up the taller buildings creating an idyllic
    surrounding scales, building types, and found conditions and, in so doing, refuge from the urban surroundings. The paseo, shaded by trees and a
    might be applicable as a strategy for larger, more complex areas of vegetation-covered trellis, takes the place of a conventional interior lobby.
    development.
    This idyllic design brings open green space to a dense urban milieu. The
    Posted: Feb 22nd, 2009 / Last Edited: Apr 11th, 2012 Share this Article idiosyncratic topology creates a community-oriented social fabric and challenges
    Print the prevalent urban social order.

    SOURCES
    http://morphopedia.com/projects/madrid-housing

    Link to free download of Creating Defensible Space by Oscar Newman


    http://www.huduser.org/publications/pdf/def.pdf

    http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/27/spain-rights-risk-housing-crisis

    http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB092656
    Pruitt Igoe 40 Years Later by Sara Cendon
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