The fabric of happiness

María Auxiliadora GALVEZ PEREZ (ES)
Izabela WIECZOREK (PL)
Rut CUENCA (ES)
Miguel GARCIA GRANDE (ES)
Marisa REQUES (ES)
architects

Europan 7 La Unión

winner

The proposal tries to ask the resident about his spatial requirements, and beyond that configure his accommodation against these requirements. The project contem-plates seven spatial desires (garden - passage - lodging - sea - rainbow - silence - altitude); the resident could choose or propose one that has not been specified yet.  Parallel to the spatial desires arise bioclimatic strategies, which are applied according to the climatic analysis of the place thus accomplishing an aesthetic and physical comfort at any season of the year. This urban space is build of isolated elements (nature - reflexions - nodes - textures - links – expansions). The landscape generated by the system is variable and adjusts itself in any aspect to the conditions of the surroundings, generating a dynamic topography, which is equally tied to natural as well as urban structures.

Site informations

La Unión

Synthetic site file EN

This project is connected to the following themes

Housing - Ways of life

A bioclimatic strategy is applied to a set of seven aspirations, forming a dynamic topography with kasbah-like interior spaces. Housing becomes part of a wider perspective on the human relationship with landscape, nature and things.

Nature - Topography / ground

The project’s layout plan is a hybrid texture, offering a landscape that functions as a flexible “open source” system, able to evolve in response to conditions and events.

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