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LAVAPIÉS DENSITY-INTENSITY-IDENTITY

SOCIAL LABORATORY

semester work Lucía Santos Buceta P7_Unit Aparicio_ETSAM winter 2020

ANALYSIS In pairs we were asked to analyze a block of the neighborhood. This allowed us to gather information, share it with the other students and get to understand deeply the life of the neighborhood of LavapiĂŠs.

_whit Fran TorĂŠ Mesa

This small unit is thought willing not to eliminate the precious public space of the neighborhood of Lavapiés.

At the same time, it tries to be self-sufficient, groundbreaking and playful.

Two connected capsules hang from the buildings dialoguing with the garlands and decorations that always dress the streets of Lavapiés.

100 m³

The space is minimal, but it has vegetable panels that not only isolate the interior of the house but allow the cultivation of small green food.

In addition there is a water collector and some up cycled materials are added.

Housing Unit for

one’s own

FIRST URBAN PROPOSAL

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A massive transformation for a much better and healthier daily life of citizens of Lavapies is made.

Babel is a more self-suficient residential place which encourages self-organization, social relationships and culture of sharing spaces, functions and experiences.

The proposal aims to remove the houses in worse condition of the blocks 72 and 73 and replace them by three new typologies of timber structures.

This way, a balanced sequence of long housing blocks, two high towers and a large emptied new space is set. Public space is a clear lack in Lavapies, thereby, it is multiplied in tis project. Commertial activity, nature and recreation are now coexisting.

468 inhabitants will be rehoused. Air and light will now reach each and every of their new homes.

For the remaining buildings it is proposed to open windows in the old party walls and to implement auxiliary structures that will provide them with new semi-private outdoor spaces.

Plot selection is made hypothetically using the quality of the houses as determinate. However, in reality, it would be a participatory process in which neighbours themselves would form cooperatives for demolishing their current homes and replace them with these prototypes.

This model could then be extrapolable to almost any other urban space.

New public space generated on ground floor aims to talk about the memory of the place. The demolished buildings become part of the pavement and furniture.

This is done by embedding the waste in the cemenr that forms the horizontal surface.

Big public seats are another link between past and present through recicled concrete pieces.

THE PROTOTYPES - exterior communications - commercial free plan on ground floor - common spaces - space, light, air optimization -

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-crossed laminated timber structure-methal structure for outdoor terraces and communications-