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First there was non-public housing, the epitome of inventive freedom for architects. In materializing the desires of (normally rich) non-public purchasers, architects elevated a easy residential design into an architectural masterpiece. Some examples embrace Peter Salter’s Walmer Yard — a 22 million growth — Mies Van der Rohe’s Farnsworth Home and Frank Loyd Wright’s Falling Water. Nevertheless, within the final couple of years, a brand new residential problem has more and more been delivered to the forefront of architectural discourse: the necessity for well-designed social housing.
Social housing was as soon as considered an affordable design, normally present in “ugly” towers crammed with flats that had been regularly darkish and chilly and by no means inviting. These days, following the rise of neighborhood dwelling, social housing is progressively changing into related to well-thought-out architectural proposals, high quality building and even sustainable design. Other than public constructing tasks, it’s one different typology that doesn’t chase revenue, thus selling design experimentation, an emphasis on well-being in addition to groundbreaking progress on self-operating constructing applied sciences.
54 social housing in Inca
By Fortuny-Alventosa Morell Arquitectes, Mallorca, Spain
Jury Winner, Sustainable Multi-Unit Residential Constructing, twelfth Annual A+ Awards,
The venture consists of 54 social safety houses. It addresses two elementary points of social housing design: the seamless integration of a constructing into its context and the synthesis of hybrid features throughout area. The housing modules are organised round a central core that promotes social gatherings, whereas every particular person residence has a patio, a terrace or a non-public backyard. The venture additionally incorporates a sequence of passive home methods to scale back the power demand for heating and cooling and maximizes the pure gentle that enters the area.
Social-housing models
By Atelier du Pont, Paris, France
This venture is tightly located in-between dense, adjoining housing. Its “L” form and architectural morphology creates a collective backyard on the floor flooring degree, planted with tall bushes. The complicated options flats, terraces with unobstructed views and townhouses built-in harmoniously into one, consecutive quantity. The façade is clad with black enamel terracotta tiles whose reflections change relying on the standard and course of the sunshine, establishing a continuity with the present Toit et Joie designed by Philippe Gazeau in 1993.
159 Social Housing Carabanchel
By TAAs, Madrid, Spain
Regardless of its city character, the venture is situated near huge metropolis voids that act as city warmth sinks. In consequence, the constructing is split in two items that kind two inside plazas, fostering social interactions. Escalating stands join the open areas with the flats, resulting in a morphology that’s closely influenced by Madrid’s Northwestern nocturnal cool winds, making certain the constructing’s climatic efficiency. The town’s materials tradition is transferred to the construction, that includes native stones in addition to concrete blocks which can be extremely sturdy and require little upkeep.
62 Social Housing, the Séqué
By GARDERA-D, Bayonne, France
Opposite to the same old norm, this social housing complicated is located within the countryside, addressing questions on neighborhood dwelling in nature. The venture is extremely contextual, that includes areas akin to massive balconies and traversing homes that benefit from the encompassing panorama. In parallel, its easy, compact and modular construction ensures each a technical and financial effectivity in building.
Social Housing Romea
By PICCO architetti, Ravenna, Italy
The venture hyperlinks seamlessly to the present city material. Other than the quite a few blocks of flats, its format configuration constructs a sequence of outside areas akin to gardens, paths, parking tons – all of that are outlined by bushes that acts as a pure barrier between the social housing complicated and town. The supplies are comprised of concrete, metallic parts and timber.
10 social housing models
By Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes, Paris, France
This venture is instantly aligned with the neighbourhood’s city character and density by way of its scale and materiality and establishes a visible continuity with the buildings reverse. The road façade is a recent reinterpretation of conventional Parisian structure, whereas the form of the constructing types an inside courtyard, with an open-air staircase that gives entry to the housing models. Lastly, the constructing is a part of a Cerqual kind A certification course of, with low-energy consumption design and strengthened insulation to conform the “major power normal”.
16 social housing for Granollers city corridor
By ONL, arquitectura, Granollers, Spain
The conceptual technique of the venture was to design an exterior façade that seeks abstraction by way of color, rhythm and motion and which contrasts the home, non-public life occurring in its inside. A sequence of movable panels turn into the dominant aesthetic aspect, whereas additionally serving as a filter that controls the extent of privateness and the pure gentle coming into the inside area. The flats are “double-sided”, gaining access to each the road and a central courtyard, whereas a service core offers all the mandatory features to its inhabitants.
Fortuitously, the preconceptions of social housing have been progressively fading, giving approach to new interpretation of how these, elementary, constructing typologies will be addressed, each by way of architectural design, sustainable building, contextual integration and, in fact, social affect.
Featured Picture: 54 social housing in Inca by Fortuny-Alventosa Morell Arquitectes, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Jury Winner, 2024 A+ Awards, Constructed – Sustainable Multi-Unit Residential Constructing
For over a decade, Architizer’s A+Awards have been championing architectural excellence worldwide. This 12 months, this system celebrates native innovation with world recognition. Click on to enter earlier than the Fundamental Entry Deadline on Friday December sixth.