Madrid's architectural firm formed by Amann, Canovas and Maruri. completed the project of this Hybrid Complex in Coslada, near to Madrid. The buildings have a program of 118 Subsidized dwellings, offices, retail spaces and garage.

The project, by Amann, Canovas and Maruri, arises from descontextualized urban context and from the conditions of the urban planning.  A geometrical submission emphasizes the hybrid image and complex typology of these towers. The galleries, the gateway, common area and access on the middle floor are configured as an intermediate space between the housing and contact with the hybrid complex and the city.

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Located in a recently redeveloped area in the industrial town of Coslada, close to Madrid, the project is born of the arrangement between different uses and different height levels: underground parking, offices and commercial uses from the public ground floor to the public raised space on the third floor platform, and from this level residential spaces: it is a hybrid building in the periphery.

It was promoted by the local government in order to cover the lack of low cost housing in the city. The whole of the 20.000 m² to build with an inversion of 8.700.000 euros was designed according to a specific demand for young people, where the 70% of the totality of 118 units would be appointed for rent, keeping thirty five dwellings for sale.

The project aims to offer an attractive urban proposal farther than the mere accumulation of residential units. The decision to divide the volume in four towers around a public raised space that works as a cover for the entrances and commercials in the public ground space turns the building into an urban visible joint that connects different areas in the city.

The low square is connected to the high public space by an elevator and a hung metallic stair. The high plaza, elevated ten meters, communicates the four towers and separates the diverse uses, becoming definitely the heart of the project.  As a meeting point space, it assumes its condition, once equipped, as sensitive leisure place for collective socialization, changing into an open community new service for the city.

The housing complex consists in 40m² apartments and 60m² two bedroom dwellings. The interior space of the apartments conceived as a continuous space that can be modified with large sliding doors, are enlarged with a 7m2 protected terraces thought for permanent use. The apartment’s space is separated from outdoors by a thick linear storage set and from the noise of common corridors, with the mechanical rooms.

The set is constructed with a reinforced concrete structure, covered with a steel sheet skin that is finished in shades of gray, working as a ventilated façade that change from opaque finish to perforated finish.
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Amann-Canovas-Maruri. Architects.- Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, Nicolás Maruri. Field Architects.- Andrés Canovas y Nicolás Maruri.
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Beatriz Amann, Mauro Bravo, Javier Gutiérrez,Patricia Lucas, Ana López, Pablo Sigüenza, Rafael Marcos, Carlos Ríos.
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Structures.- Mecanismo / Florentino Regalado. Facilities.- Condiciones Internas S.L. Interior design.- Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, Nicolás Maruri. Models.- Beatriz Amann, Mauro Bravo, Patricia Lucas, Carlos Ríos. Quantity Surveyors.- Pedro Montesinos, Elena Galán.
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EMVICOSA, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda de Coslada.
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EMVICOSA, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda de Coslada.
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ETOSA. SA.
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Commission. Design project.- 2005-2006.
Construction Project.- 2008-2009.
Start of construction.- 2010.
Completed.- 2012.
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€ 8.723.254,00
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Plaza de la Hispanidad, Coslada, Madrid. Spain.
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Amann, Cánovas, Maruri, architecture firm established by: Atxu Amann Alcocer, Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz and Nicolás Maruri Mendoza.

Atxu Amann Alcocer. Madrid 1961. Architect by the ETSA of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Urban Planning Technician from the Urban Studies Center of I.E.A.L. (M.A.P.) Scholar of the Technische Hoschule of Darmstadt (Germany) in CAAD. Director of the magazine Arquitectos. Director of the Postgraduate courses in Editorial Design for the European Social Fund. Professor in the postgraduate courses of Editorial Graphic Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid. Professor of the Department of Architectural Graphic Ideation of ETSAM

Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz. Cartagena 1958. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule. Darmstatd. Germany. Director of the "Monographs of Architects" Collection. Director of the "Monographs of Buildings" Collection, Director of the "Crítica de Arquitectura" Collection, Director and editor of the magazine Arquitectos, 1987-2006, Professor of the CSDM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University, European Design Institute, Coordinator of several postgraduate courses in Graphic Design Editorial in the Faculty of Fine Arts, the European Institute of Design and the European Social Fund. Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM, Professor of the Master of Aesthetics and Theory of Arts of the Autonomous University, Professor of Design Master of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Salamanca, Professor of the Master of Intervention in the Heritage of the ETSAM Professor of the Tourism Master of the UPC of Barcelona.

He has been secretary of the Final Project Project Tribunal at ESTAM. UPM. Deputy Director of the Spanish Architecture Biennial. Director of the Summer Course at the University of Almería. Visiting Professor at the Universities of Salamanca, San Sebastián, La Coruña, Seville, Navarra, Valencia, Polytechnic of Cartagena, SEK of Segovia, Alfonso X, Advanced Architecture Institute of Barcelona, ​​Polytechnic University of Catalonia, London AA, Montpellier, Rome Tre , Calgliari, Toulouse, Javeriana from Bogotá, Chicago IIT and Arizona CAPLA. He is a professor of Projects of the ETSAM Academic Coordinator of the MCH of the ETSAM. UPM and Director of the Projects area. Professor of the subject "Sociology of Housing".

Nicolás Maruri Mendoza. Madrid 1961. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid. Doctorate from ETSAM with outstanding Cum Llaude, 2007. Prometheus Scholarship at Tecniche Hoschule Darmstatd. Germany. Master's Degree in Building from Columbia University. NY. He is a professor in the Projects Department of ETSAM. He has been: Secretary of the Court of the ETSAM End-of-Degree Project and Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona. He has given conferences in London AA, San Sebastian, SEK of Segovia.

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