Competition for the construction of a development of three buildings with 124 official housing units on plot B2.1 of the Pla de Ponent sector, in the municipality of Gavà in Barcelona. The project is located on the western edge of the Garraf Natural Park at the junction with the urban core of the municipality. The planned layout emphasizes two routes to be preserved. The first, ascending, connects Carrer de Manel Carrasco i Formiguera with the Cim del Calamot. The second, in an orthogonal direction, is a pedestrian route connecting two nearby green areas. Five large built surfaces fragment the meeting with the ground floor, intended for commercial and residential lobbies, in relation to the described circulations. The interior courtyard of the block, in addition to being a space for rest and meeting for users, is a transit space for the citizens of the municipality. The main objective is to consolidate this urban fragment and offer integrated housing in the middle of an ecological and landscaped space of maximum interest
The first objective of the housing is to maximize the architectural resources to form a flexible and mutable habitat over time, adapted to the requirements of modern family units. The room separator elements are mobile and become independent of the facade walls to become autonomous. The spaces can be added or segregated to adjacent rooms to form unique spaces with uses not initially contemplated. Upper lighting and ventilation panels are provided towards the courtyard. The proposed type is simple and efficient, highly versatile, distributed in concatenated strips according to uses.
The typological aggregation has been designed to favor the mixing of users in the arrangement and their interrelation within the circulations and common spaces of the building. The houses are distributed in two parallel strips on opposite facades and a central interior circulation, with a staircase per block of houses. The central fissure that runs through the building is a large distributor in height that allows access to the houses, but also ventilation of the humid areas and offers a space without the occlusive perspective of the closed central distributor.
