The building is located on the outskirts of Pamplona, although it could well be in the vicinity of any highway. In this particular case, there is a view of the junction that connects the city with Zaragoza, Barcelona and Madrid to the north, and Jaca and the Pyrenees to the east, from every panoramic window.<\/p>\n
The shape and volume of this building respond to an urban masterplan that ambitions to hide the backside of the existing urban fabric. The project's starting point was a curved building, about 60 meters long per 15 meters deep and seven floors high. \nThis building was conceived as a retaining screen where two different conditions were negotiated: on the one hand, the infrastructural, marked by speed, efficiency and generic language; on the other, the urban fabric, characterized by the domestic, the everyday and the specific. This duality is solved through a two-sided strategy: first, with a compact, horizontal and light fa\u00e7ade facing the highway, materialized by a corrugated double-curved steel panel and red reflecting folding shutters; and with an abstract and fragmented fa\u00e7ade on the opposite side of the building, facing the existing fabric. This rear fa\u00e7ade has been built with coloured fibro-cement panels and vertical windows.<\/p>\n
The housing typology questions the homogeneity often imposed by the real estate market, which only considers a single type of family. As an alternative, ten different types of dwellings are proposed, adapting to the diverse needs of the current heterogeneous society: small families with one or more children, couples without children, freelancers who may need a workspace at home, students, singles, retired people, etc. The different types are organized around three distributors located on floors 1, 3 and 5, thus obtaining apartments with one to four bedrooms and a variable surface area of between 40 and 160 m2. The result is an assemblage of one- and two-storey dwellings that recalls Le Corbusier's 'Unit\u00e9 d'habitation'. Besides, there are courtyards on the last two floors of the building through which natural light permeates into apartments and corridors.<\/p>\n
The openings and materials of the fa\u00e7ades make explicit the duality of character between the highway and the residential fabric. Instead of transcribing the typological complexity of the interior, they conceal it and refract the exterior, without mimicking or simulating it; an exterior that we find attractive because of its generic and vulgar character.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
El proyecto se sit\u00faa en las afueras de Pamplona, aunque bien podr\u00eda encontrarse en las inmediaciones de cualquier autopista. En este caso, desde las viviendas se disfruta de la visi\u00f3n del nudo que comunica Pamplona con Zaragoza, Barcelona y Madrid, hacia el norte, y Jaca y el Pirineo hacia el Este. La forma del volumen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-proyectos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}