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Architects: Óscar Pedrós arquitecto
- Area: 346 m²
- Year: 2020
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Photographs:Óscar Pedrós
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Manufacturers: Basf Master Rheobuild, Cortizo, Saint Gobain U-Glass
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Lead Architect: Óscar Pedrós
Text description provided by the architects. Contemporary actions in the area of the Colonia de Casas Baratas Juan Canalejo (the 1950s) (as known in Spanish by The Neighborhood of Cheap Houses) have distorted its “typology”, if we understand as a type not only the condition of semi-detached house freed from auxiliary buildings but also a language of the facade that, we insist, found the conditions for an aesthetic uniformity due to economic reasons. Nowadays, there is not a single reconstructed or rebuilt house that maintains the initial composition and that introduces us to an even more complex reality: in the modest Neighborhood, there were buildings with one and two floors, whose design was already resolved on the original project. That is to say: its condition of different heights had already been resolved from the coherence of the project. What happens then, when on an original building of a unique plan, the Master Plan allows building a new one on top?
