The site is integrated on a sort of a garden city area, where the built fabric is intercalated with generous gardened areas. Hence, our project intends to dissimulate itself into this context, emerging as only one more piece of the whole. 

On the core of the plot there were three preexisting 6 storey dwelling buildings, which refurbishment was part of our commissioning. The six new buildings work as a kind of a perimeter belt of the plot, allowing though a great permeability between the surrounding city and the more intimate gardened areas of the plot.

The project commissioning was divided in two phases. The first phase comprehend the three preexisting building’s refurbishment, as well as the South part of the new project, composed by four of the six new buildings. The second phase, here presented, concerns the two remaining new buildings, at the North part of the plot.

Within these two buildings, House 1 comprises thirty apartments, divided into two main typologies: frontal apartments, on which the living area as well as the kitchen and eating zone are settled along the facade, paralleled by a long and aggregating balcony; at the middle axis of the building, one finds cross-apartments, perpendicular to the facade.

House 2 includes a kindergarten at the ground floor, and thirty-four apartments on the upper floors. From the 1st to the 5th floors is established a cross-apartment typology, where the living area, kitchen and eating zone as well as the loggia work all together as the core of the apartment, connecting the remaining private uses; on the 6th floor appear the attic apartments, each one endowed of generous terraced areas.  

The facade constructive system consists of a rendered double-leaf masonry/concrete outer wall and wood-metal windows, intertwined either with concrete balconies or loggias. The two buildings are planned within the Minergie Standard certificate.