Ongi Etorri

2021
Team point of view
Beizama welcomes 12 new homes as an opportunity to bring back the services lost with depopulation, in turn attracting even more inhabitants and thus starting a new cycle of growth and development. The project turns the steep slope of the plot into a virtue, drawing a path that saves the height difference and connects it with the existing social poles of the village. This path is established as a public street and surrounded by workshop spaces that, in their positioning, configure new balconies and public squares. Above these squares and closely related to them, the same cells group together to form dwellings capable of adapting to multiple lifestyles. Due to their direct access to the surrounding landscape and multiple façade orientations, each dwelling becomes a house.

Jury Point of View
The project is based on an analysis of the typology of the caserío, from which it extracts a series of elements that will later be incorporated into the proposal. It approaches the intervention on the plot by means of four pieces placed on the ground organizing new accesses and paths that allow to go around the new settlement, as well as communicating it with the centre of Beizama. The use of the ground floors, with covered spaces that can sometimes be opened and sometimes closed, allows an approach to this new interpretation of the typology of the caserío as a productive space capable of being incorporated into the urban fabric.