Ways of living

In a place where there is no urban connection and there is a lack of housing, I have suggested a building that, understanding the pre-existence of the environment has wanted to connect the city to the sea through the urban voids, and strengthens the space of social interacting with an inner street so the elderly and young people could live together.

In response to the problem of the place, my strategy of implementation has been the creation of an urban void through the demolition of industrial construction of low architectonic value, keeping a small part of the highest value, so we can use it for a new community use.\nIn this new free space, it will be destined, firstly, to a square that wants to unite the old city with the sea, and to be a space of social interaction.\nSecondly, a compact residential building will be placed, which will face the new square, and will be separated by a patio from the pre-existing.\nIt is for this fact, that imitating the old city urban structure, that is, the succession of lots between 5 and 7 meters width aligned on each side of a street, my proposal is no more than an interpretation at different levels to adapt it to the environment.\nIn response to the social issues, contrary to what is usually done, I have chosen for young and elderly people to live together, trying to encourage them to establish a mutual relationship and to learn from each other, letting this human exchange enrich them in both senses.\nLinking it to the previous explanation, where have people socialize all their lives? Where do Mediterranean people live? On the streets and squares.\nThat is why I bring this idea of the street in my building as a space for distribution and connection, assimilating it to an exterior corridor that links to the different towers.\nThis exterior corridor is just a longitudinal element that expands and contracts, and where three fingers appears, allowing to access to the different dwellings. These fingers make the function of the cross-streets of the Mediterranean cities, letting the sea breeze enter and refresh the building.\nIn contrast, the private part materializes in the form of towers that grow in height to adapt to the rest of neighbors of the surroundings and in proportion of the square that is generated in front.\nThese towers have also been orientated to seek sea views, provide privacy and have the best solar orientation.