From a contest for the design of 80 social housing within a really gridded and inflexible urban mesh, this building is projected to seek a reflexion about the intermediate spaces and the transitions, in a context where the urban development is characterized by a fast construction and its impermeability, with no relationship with the surrounding area. This interesting reflexion carries out a closer and engaged architecture with the direct user.

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Ten dwellings per storey are organized in each PB+3 building, in a way that turning three dwellings to the façade and keeping other seven line up to the street the building is broken up in two different parts, allowing the corners and the relationships between the inner façades and the outside ones with the whole.

A slight slope divides the underground floors, allowing the entrance of light and fresh air to the parking. On that sloped surface covered with honeysuckle, where a small black poplar forest is seeded for, during the summer, protecting from the Sun and to refresh the wind.

At the same time, the access and the community spaces are projected as a relationship place, intermediate spaces between the dwellings and the outside space. On this way is understood the footbridge, as a tradition element, where the corrugated steel mesh responds with more or less density to the necessities of the program (handrails, lattices, balconies…), allowing the façade to home vegetal colonizations which, add up to the black poplars, refresh a spaces whose orientation will make it really appreciated on the warm season.

Text.- Toni Gironès.

CREDITS.-

Architect.- Toni Gironès.
Collaborators.- BRUFAU I CUSÓ S.L.P. (technical architect), Xavier Saura (structural engineering), Foment Immobiliari Assequible S.A.U. (promoter), Tarraco Empresa Constructora S.A. (builder).
Location.- Sector 5 Emprius-Sud, Salou, Tarragona, Spain.
Date.- 2007-2009.
Surface.- 8.672 m² (construction), 3.260 m² (urbanization).
Coste.- 615 €/m² (construction), 100 €/m² (urbanization).

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Toni Gironès, (Badalona, 1965) architect by "Escuela de Arquitectura del Vallés - ETSAV" (1992). Professor of projects at that School until 2005 and from then Teaching Responsible and professor/coordinator of the projects and drawing I-II (2005-11) subjects and of Projects and Urban planning II (2011-12) at "Escuela de Arquitectura de Reus - URV". Since 2009 he is member of the Direction Council and professor of BIARCH - Barcelona Institute of Architecture.

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Published on: November 26, 2013
Cite: "80 social housing in Salou by Toni Gironès" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/80-social-housing-salou-toni-girones> ISSN 1139-6415
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