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Text description provided by the architects. I have always been a linear block. I was aware, from the very first moment, of what the regulations said about my future: "Building an open linear block." The shape of the plot did not help much. A corner L with three arms that wrapped up the square (an urban block with an interior courtyard).
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Being linear, even if one turns around the corner, and with gallery accesses, has many advantages. You can be even fairer, by giving all the housing units two orientations: the street and the interior courtyard, cross ventilation and access to all tenants from a single entrance.
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The radial organization, fan-shaped, brings the open space closer to all the housing units. Balance of conditions. Their vertical stacking makes logical the application of all the structural services systems.
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The gallery provides access to each of the housing units while being the vertical communication street. It also creates a space that we understand not only as a dynamic corridor but as a true open lobby for each unit. An intermediate, transicional space which allows to filter or tame outside elements like wind, cold or excessive heat.
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The access to all units takes place through an elevated courtyard-laundry room, as the last step in the gradient that separates the public from the private. Crossing the housing units, the openings that are set-back offer a greater intimacy to users because they contain only their own windows. The house is organizad in two area: a day one, with the Entrance, the kitchen and the living area; and the night one, with the bedrooms and the bathrooms.
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In the upper level – which accommodates the lumber rooms – the terrace solarium, with its artificial grass carpet, extends the dwelling towards the roof and offers privileged views over the Ensanche (urban expansion area) of Vallecas.