Regarding its hybrid condition, the proposal has municipal facilities, such as an auditorium, reading room, or civic center, which are interwoven with different modalities of social housing. The ecological condition of the project seeks to minimize the ecological impact of the building both in its construction process and during its useful life. Finally, the cohabitation condition refers to the multiplicity of current ways of living, proposing flexible homes adapted to current comfort needs.
H.E.Co (Cohabitational Ecological Hybrid) by AYLLÓN PARADELA DE ANDRÉS Arquitectos. Rendering by AYLLÓN PARADELA DE ANDRÉS Arquitectos.
Project description by AYLLÓN PARADELA DE ANDRÉS Arquitectos
Having become a central issue in the political and social debate today, social housing must face a series of challenges to respond to the demands of contemporary society. The first of them has to do with social transformations and challenges; that is, with the condition of urbanity and with public services for citizen attention. The second of them is linked to climate change and the ecological crisis that threatens the future of the planet. Finally, the third has to do with the way we live together. In response to these challenges, the project is articulated from a triple condition "Hybrid Ecological and Cohabitation."
Firstly, the "Hybrid Condition" of the proposal is outlined, in which a series of municipal endowment programs (auditorium, reading room, civic center, etc.) are interwoven with different modalities of social housing; In turn, this notion of hybridization is also reflected in the image of the proposal, adapted to a heterogeneous urban context and different orientations.
H.E.Co (Cohabitational Ecological Hybrid) by AYLLÓN PARADELA DE ANDRÉS Arquitectos. Rendering by AYLLÓN PARADELA DE ANDRÉS Arquitectos.
This last aspect is also linked to the "Ecological Condition" that characterizes the intervention. Along these lines, the aim is to minimize its ecological impact at all levels: from the construction process of the new building (promoting material economy and the use of 0 km materials, resorting to industrialized cross-laminated wood structures, etc.), to the useful service life of the complex, betting on reinterpreting various passive strategies of the vernacular tradition to contribute to global energy savings (glazed galleries to the south, use of intermediate spaces, etc.).
Finally, thirdly, it is essential to point out the "Cohabitation Condition" of the project as a response to the multiplicity (and volatility) of ways of living demanded by today's society. The coexistence of different variants of flexible, versatile homes with high comfort conditions is proposed that allow multiple ways of living depending on their configuration, size, or connection with the different common spaces of the complex that promote the idea of community life. (cohousing-type homes for the elderly and/or young people, duplex-type homes, etc.) At the same time, within their diversity, all typologies share an analogous typological scheme based on a rigorous industrialized structural scheme that ensures that all homes have double orientation and crossed views of the surroundings.
