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Acceso general calle Fray Felix
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Acceso general calle Fray Felix
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Acceso principal
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Patio principal viviendas
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Patio adarve viviendas
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Primera azotea
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Planta
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Seccion
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Social Housing Rehabilitation in El Pópulo
MGM morales-giles-mariscal. Cádiz, Spain
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Name of work in English
Social Housing Rehabilitation in El Pópulo
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Name of work in original language
Rehabilitación de viviendas en El Pópulo
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2009
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Work Location
Cádiz, Spain
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Studio
MGM morales-giles-mariscal
EUmies Awards 2009 Shortlisted
Collaborators
Construction company: SANROC; Technical architect: Francisco Alcoba; Structural engineering: DITECNICA S.L; Civil, soil and survey: INSUR J.G
Program
Collective housing
Completion
2007
The programme was to rehabilitate an old building with multiple historical layers in the centre of Cádiz, which was already occupied by several families. In order to provide these families with decent housing while at the same time conserve the morphology of the building, the design strategy focused on the refurbishment of the ground and first floors, above which the new architecture took shape. Other conditioning factors such as maintenance of the net floor area and the facade height, led to the development of five apartment units with space for the neighbourhood association on the ground floor and setback attic additions on the roof. An offshoot of the building that connects to the plaza adjacent to the cathedral has recuperated its streetlike character and is now a twostorey private street, which like the patio, has large windows of varying shapes and sizes with movable plywood shutters, creating an interior urban landscape.