02_Social housing | Rueda Pizarro Arquitectos

NAME

Project title: 64 social housing

Recommending party
The project has been submitted by: Maria Jose Pizarro Juanas, architect

LOCATION
Country: Spain

City: Madrid

Address: C/ baños de valdearados, Vallecas

AUTHOR

Designer or design team architects: Rueda Pizarro arquitectos s.l.p.
Architects: María José Pizarro, Óscar Rueda.
Collaborators: Alberto Galindo, Ramiro Losada, Laura Montero, Gonzalo del Val.
Quantity surveyor: Pedro A. González
Engineering: Jofemar Estructura, Blanca Garcia
Contractor: TAPUSA
Photos: Miguel de Guzmán

DETAILS  

Plot Area: 1.406,25 sq.m.

Gross Area: 7.600 sq.m.

Of which residential: 70%
Public/communal areas: 30 %
Facilities for the public: 0 %
Business/trade: 0 %
Offices: 0 %

Number of residential units: 64
Typology of users: families
Total building costs Euros: 3.661.718,65 €
Building Cost = Total Bulding Cost / Gross Area: 481,80 €/ sq.m.
Floor area ratio = Gross Area / Plot Area: 5,40
Work started on date: Monday, 1st May 2006
Work completion date: Tuesday, 1st June 2010

OWNERSHIP 

Promoter: Empresa publica de vivienda y suelo de Madrid
Allotment rule: public protection
Reduction cost percentage compared to the market value:
– assignment:  not indicated
– rent: not indicated

Description of the project: 

To build in environments as the ville of Vallecas means discovering new codes, dialogue with new monuments of the “city entropic” portrayed by Robert Smithson in the late 60’s in an article in Artforum: knots of highway, large parking areas, platforms, pumps, empty … a city as described by R. S. full of “holes and monumental absences, compared with New York that seems compact and solid” (“A tour of the monuments of Passaic“, Robert Smithson, New Jersey, Artforum 1968), but not dialogue with the “urban facts” of the consolidated city that Aldo Rossi described in the book “Architecture of the City”.
Decisions are made with parameters closest to the laws of thermodynamics and field theoretical models of physics than traditional scopes: entropic landscape or thermodynamics are some new codes to which we turn to the development of this building.
With these premises, we intend to establish a compromise between the strict enforcement of the rules of the urban game (a volume absolutely preconfigured) and in-depth study of it to find the key that lend identity to the architectural volume. We establish a series of operations in the given solid by the rules that they let to achieve a more comfortable housing climate, temperature and light:
1 .- The volume is emptied in the northeast facade to get the largest possible facade with the better orientation (south) and adjust the excess build.
2 .- Lower the height on the south side and create a slope to get more sunlight on the walls less favorable.
3 .- The ground floor is 2.85 meters set back to save the corner and create a landscaped area prior that allows more privacy in the houses located on ground floor.
4 .- From the sixth to the eighth floor leans the facade, forming a continuous envelope that solves the problem of recessed penthouses and ground floor corner the same way.

The volume is completed with a system of energy saving and climate protection of the building system: 1. Design of windows heat sensors to south and windows shields to north, reinforced the status of enclosures in front to increase the isolation. 2. Exterior insulation system, which wraps around the building as a “quilt”, and maintains the mass inside the enclosure to increase the thermal inertia and, therefore, the temperature stability. 3. Boost for water and heating with solar panels on deck.