Barcelona 2 0 0 9 Two family housing. PLUS theme.
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Two family housing
Front and back facades
Concept: Equal distribution and common areas. Each house, a whole floor and a “plus”, avoiding duplex. The comfort of the housing avoids inner stairs and consequent temperature losses. Each house provides the maximum area allowed: a living room-dinning room-kitchen, bathroom, 3 bedroom and studying area for the convertible room. The balcony offer a generous exttension to the living room. Two houses exactly alike, avoiding a flat of better quality than others, where some areas are common and others become common as the ground-floor, being the garden, understood as a space, an extension of level 0. Evolutionary House: The house “plus” has the shifting characteristic of possible additions: basement, elevator, common rooms, pool on the roof, etc.. A house that adapts to the changing of people’s lives with minimal effort, which does not restrict changing needs, the emergence of new residents the opportunity to work, public activities from home, etc ... Thus, one can generate various forms of life of the building. Indoor Environment: Neutral spaces. Wardrobes to avoid furniture. Warm and neutral colors provided by the applied materials. Dominance of wood, floor and ceiling, all the rest is white. Bright spaces, well-oriented and assisted by the white interior. The walls of the main body (lift and services) are made of concrete to better respond to moist areas (bathrooms).
Two family housing
Living-room type b
Zona A [night]
Zone B [services]
Zone C [day]
.flexible space .night area (bedrooms and studio)
.fix space .service area: bathrooms and instalations .vertical and horizontal communication (stairs and lift)
.flexible space .day area, most of time. .living-room, dinning-room, rooftop, studio.
Living-room type a
Rooftop plan
2nd floor plan [type a - white]
1st floor plan [type b - brown]
Ground floor plan
patio view
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Longitudinal section
Perspective back facade