Following the contest proposal, three blocks were designed. Two of them with a domestic dimension and the third much larger. The projected buildings are fragmented volumetrically to achieve a lower appearance, using color as a differentiating element that activates their visual perception. The blocks offer different types of housing.
The volumetric arrangement allows the generation of an urban façade towards the outside of the complex, while the interior facades are related to the idea of pavilions on a garden. The project is built with the combination of reinforced concrete walls and facades with lacquered steel panels.
Project description by amann-canovas-maruri, Magalhaes
These three buildings are subject to extremely rigorous implementation regulations.
While two of them are presented with a domestic dimension, the third is excessively large for the neighborhood in which it is inserted. One of the objectives of this project is therefore to work with the apparent dimension, providing domesticity to the neighborhood related to size.
Three Public Housing buildings in Luxembourg
In this sense, the projected buildings are fragmented volumetrically and provide a more reasonable dimensional appearance. This strategy is complemented by the use of color as a differentiating element of the different volumes that constitute the proposal. The color also tends to provide chromatism to a location that coexists with a gray due to the weather, especially adverse.
The volumetric arrangement works in favor of the set of public gardens that are implanted in the heart of the project and that provide two well differentiated faces, one as an image of the site and another that relates to the idea of pavilions on a garden.
The housing program seeks the diversity of types and sizes, which is encouraged from the volumetric decomposition of the proposal, providing a good amount of life options.
It is constructed with a structure of reinforced concrete walls that properly insulated is coated with a trans-ventilated facade of lacquered sheet steel. The energy rating of the building as a whole is triple A.
