Comments on: Carabanchel Housing / dosmasuno arquitectos

By: Cristobal Mayendia

Cristobal Mayendia — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:45:26 +0000

There are a lot of good ideas in this project but unfortunately ELMANCO is right, the complex feels like a jail. I would have treated the external facade in a different way. The white mesh makes the building look like a big cage. The MVRDV influence is noticeable in the back facade. The use of color or materials with different textures would have been nice in order to differentiate the volumes/unit types.
Overall interesting as a case study but in this kind of projects you always have to ask yourself: Would you want to live here…?

By: astral zhou

astral zhou — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:37:28 +0000

测试发言

By: ELMANCO / Stefano Ricci

ELMANCO / Stefano Ricci — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:37:38 +0000

It looks like a prison designed by Apple…

By: went away

went away — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:48:46 +0000

can we download this housing?

By: Mehdi Panahi

Mehdi Panahi — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:59:22 +0000

I think it would be better if the positive Volumes affect in flat Facade as negative volumes.

By: Harsha Shamnani

Harsha Shamnani — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:23:42 +0000

It is wonderful concept with beautifully articulated volumes and its overall composition. It resolves the structural aspects in a very simple and clear manner.

By: いっしー

いっしー — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:50:51 +0000

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By: Carlos Sepúlveda

Carlos Sepúlveda — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:36:58 +0000

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By: Fundacion CiEM

Fundacion CiEM — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:07:47 +0000

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By: Matthieu Pesquet

Matthieu Pesquet — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:34:46 +0000

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By: yrag

yrag — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:24:51 +0000

Exactly!

Luca, grab your paint brush, and work clothes that you don’t mind getting dripped on— WE”RE GOING TO MADRID!

By: Luca

Luca — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:55:48 +0000

Right, if they coloured the modules and the roof of the parking it would be flawless.

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By: Kevin Parent

Kevin Parent — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:55:18 +0000

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By: Mr. Cheap

Mr. Cheap — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:11:14 +0000

I don’t know what to think of this project. The base idéa seems to be attempting to make something of the very efficient circulation scheme applied by using motel-style corridors outside of the isolated building. Still, one can ask the question of weather having so many shitty windows in each appartment is better, or if reducing the amount spent on elevators to 1/3 would have perhaps given the inhabitors some other qualities rather than a lot of elevators ? I don’t think giving a bip about the details and going all inn on a concept necessarily makes for good low cost apartments.

I’ve seen better circulation schemes for low cost housing, for example thoose that apply corridors only on every second floor, and use less elevators (perhaps two for this building block would have been enough). That does lower efficiency below 90%, but it still is very efficient, requires few elevators and stairs, and thus allows for one good detail, -for example a good size window.

By: Mauro

Mauro — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:17:36 +0000

Sono uno studente di architettura di Cagliari.
Il vostro è un progetto veramente innovativo per la forma e per la tipologia strutturale.
Il vostro progetto sarà uno degli argomenti che presenterò nel mio prossimo esame.

By: Xavi Serrella

Xavi Serrella — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:04:42 +0000

Pienso que la combinación de colores es un poco opresiva para la vida diaria, el blanco con el negro. Y esta combinación me recuerda más a una zona volcánica tipo Lanzarote que a Carabanchel.

It’s true, the combination of white and black maybe is a little oppresive for living. We’ve to remember too that we are in Madrid, because the colour of the building and sand reminds me Lanzarote (Canary Islands).

By: Mike Aldana

Mike Aldana — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:51:02 +0000

Tachidito

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:57:04 +0000

The back is a little ‘off’. Reminds me of public housing with a large unfriendly garden.

By: Juan Gomez-Velez

Juan Gomez-Velez — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:37:03 +0000

This is an extraordinary project, with great pluses, and some minuses, built out of a form generating principle and set as a rather asceptic insertion within it’s context. To make low income housing appealing, it must be conceptually striking, because it can never be truly expensively finished. A very uniform and low cost repetitive concrete structure is set of with a whimsical yet very efective volumetric statement, where small apertures, narrow corridors and bland entrances are given a dramatic overtone. Its single loaded, relatively safe circulation pattern works. The expanded metal sheating is also very effective, giving the building a front and back, a face, masked and an enhanced, accented and extremely voluptuous body.

As for the translation of excellent drawings to a built structure I feel that the metal panels should have been expressed as different from the concrete surfaces.The drawings did so, the building does not. The sheathing is pretty in paper, but expanded metal may be difficult to maintain ( a pain to paint if anything)and its uneven finish speaks of its role as something “ïnexpensive”. Paint is the least expensive of all expressive resources an architect has at his disposal, to ignore it deliberately is always a risk.

All in all, an excellent project, truly a work of distinction, well thought out and well executed. Both the architects and their sponsor should be commended….very loudly!