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Monleón Housing
- Program
- 28 dwellings and commercial units
- Location
- Barcelona
- Year
- 2021 (competition; first prize)
The urban context - the Gothic Quarter - is dense, but the plot has a façade on a square and a courtyard. This condition becomes the starting point of the project: the work of void and full; the contact with neighboring party walls; the appearance of crossed glances previously non-existent.
As Gordon Matta Clark interventions, through the precise emptying of the existing construction, it seeks to reveal new spatial relationships between what is new and what is old, between the domesticity of the courtyard and the hustle and bustle of the street.
The competition proposed the reuse of an urban infrastructure - a parking building - and convert it into a building of 28 social housing units and community spaces.
A large corridor, generous and pleasant enough to become a space for interaction between neighbors, is responsible for articulating the typical floor plan and providing access to all housing units with only one staircase and elevator core.
The resolution of the functional program with a single housing typology is designed to offer good natural ventilation and lighting, enabling the prefabrication of its components.
A minimal intervention of the existing structure is proposed, in order to find a point of balance between the need to streamline and economize the construction process and the need to offer architecture based on comfort and quality of its spaces.
