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Social houses

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about social houses

Project • By Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos • Social Housing

Paseo La Cuba Social Housing

The project seeks to reconcile the scale of the ensemble with a more domestic character by fragmenting the volumes into four smaller pieces. This fragmentation creates a landscaped interior space that provides access to all the dwellings and allows for fluidity between the surrounding green areas. These smaller volumes rise five stories so they do not cast shadows on the longitudinal block. This main block features an open ground floor containing a single unique dwelling with a small garden, topped by four standard floors and a fifth story with three penthouses. Ángel Baltanás Regarding the delicate balance between fragmentation and compactness in a location like Albacete, which experiences high solar exposure with cold... More

Project • By Burgos & Garrido Arquitectos • Social Housing

Sanchinarro Social Housing

The best neighborhood is not composed of singular architectural works. Systematicity, a certain homogeneity, and expressive restraint are attributes we consider necessary for the majority of residential buildings. Therefore, the repetitive exterior facades, with uniform apertures that do not reveal the specific rooms they illuminate to the casual observer, contribute to a serene urban ensemble while providing identity to the complex without renouncing a certain visual vibration. Ángel Baltanás, Roland Halbe, Jaime Silva Neither a block nor a perimeter block; the fully closed block can be restrictive. We maintain its morphology by preserving alignments with adjacent blocks, yet the interior garden relates to the street an... More

Project • By Carrillo Arquitectos • Housing

Los Jameos del Agua

In this project of single-family homes in Getafe we ​​have applied a concept that arises from the phenomenon of -Jameos del agua-; a natural space and an art, cultural and tourism center devised by César Manrique. Located in the north of the island of Lanzarote, it is also considered an area of ​​ecological sensitivity. For this reason, we want to achieve a unique space from the place where the project is located. This concept has inspired a promotion of 20 single-family homes, within the neighborhood of -El Bercial-, in the municipality of Getafe. The site is bordered on its three sides by streets; three roads with road and pedestrian traffic and one pedestrian. This allows us to obtain four facades from the set. The project aims to... More

Project • By Carrillo Arquitectos • Housing

PREMIUM LOS MOLINOS

Carrillo Arquitectos | Forma y Espacio (CA|FE) is a Ofiice of architecture in design as an integral part of functional and rational aesthetics. CA|FE operates within the fields of architecture, urban planning, interior design, landscape design, product design, research and development. CA|FE present a project of 14 townhouses, located in Los Molinos de Getafe (Madrid), 4-bedroom apartments divided into two levels: ground floor and first floor. This housing model shares the same organization with a constructed area of 146 m2. The dwellings are paired two by two, making the vertical prism common. They mark a firmness in its horizontality within the fabric generated in the Los Molinos sector. This set of 14 semi-detached houses are made u... More

Project • By Carrillo Arquitectos • Housing

e-domus

PROMOTING GREEN HOUSES OF BOADILLA DEL MONTE "A new way of inhabiting, where innovation in design, ecology, sociology, technology and energy sustainability reunite, as an expression of our time". “e -domus" is a promotion housing of new generation, with a conceptual project worked from the technology, which combines a concrete way of living with the use of renewable energy, achieving a more sustainable. The architect José Maria Carrillo Rodriguez, raised awareness about sustainability and the environment, is involved in the creation of new housing for young (and not so young), so that they can have an opportunity to access a single family luxury, but without high costs, within the scope of "The gully", one of the new district... More