The project conforms to an arrangement already defined by the zoning regulations. Two conditions are chosen in terms of the shape and materials of the buildings, the first with three blocks assumes the  harshness of the street, looks outward and makes contact with the city, opening to it in a firm and coherent way; they are built in steel. The second condition covers three other linear blocks and adapts to the projected green areas with a softer language and materials, wood and steel, to a certain extent also glass and vegetation that represent a fundamental element for the project as a whole. 

As for the housing, a certain typological diversity is chosen, recognizing the original conditions of the competition. Thus, the existence of duplex apartments becomes the axis of the project, especially the building located in the center of the plot whose situation is the most unfavorable, consists of two stacked duplexes, the lower one related to the first floor garden and the upper one linked to the roof level; two dwellings with two gardens with different characteristics. Based on orientation and visual relations, the different types of dwellings are developed in order to create optimal living conditions under the required technical conditions and with high quality materials.

Team:

Architecture: amann-canovas-maruri + Adelino Magalhaes

Architects: Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andres Canovas Alcaraz, Nicolas Maruri Gonzalez de Mendoza

Associate Architect: Adelino Magalhaes
Collaborators: Denis Calle Facal, Pablo Sigüenza Gómez, Joachim Kraft, Quique Zarzo Martínez, Jesús Sanabria 

Landscape: PROAP Lda

Developer: Fonds Kirchberg 

Builder: Baumeister-Haus 

Photographer: Miguel Fernández Galiano