The project proposal for the Student’s Residence on U.L.E Campus by MACA Estudio + VIRAI Arquitectos is designed as a system rather than a building. Unable to design a solution based on the conditions associated with a given plot, the project offers an independent and isotropic system, with its own “domestic” rules, which does not depend on where it is located and responds the same way to the different physical conditions that can be found. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The competition calls for proposals for a student´s residence on the new University of León Campus using prefabricated building systems. However, there is no specific plot determined for this use yet, but several possible locations within the campus. The design of the new system is based on fragmenting the required program into smaller clusters, instead of a massive block. Four equal blocks with mixed housing types, and common uses in each of the blocks, allows the solution to fit any form that the future plot can have, regardless of its shape, since the cubes will easily adapt to it.
