Morphosis Madrid Social Housing Spain MORPHOSIS In a

Morphosis, Madrid Social Housing, Spain MORPHOSIS In a suburban Madrid neighborhood of conventional, anonymous housing blocks, Morphosis devised a typology of porosity to suit the social ideals of this project type. As an alternative to towering blocks of faceless units, this project explores a radically different social model that integrates landscape and village topologies. By grafting properties commonly found in detached villas onto this low-income housing project the architects achieved a multi-family living complex with amenities such as loggias, green spaces, and domestically scaled massing that are not normally found in public housing in Spain. The basic parti is an extruded “J”: a low-rise “village” building, flanked by a tall, slender bar to the North and a lower multi-level bar building to the South. Open spaces occur on three different scales: small, domestic patios inside the individual residential units, mid-sized public courtyards that punctuate the low residential structure, and the large, communal, landscaped space, the paseo. http: //www. arcs pace. com Project Architect Landscape Architect Interior Architect Project Manager Project Architect Construction Company Clients Government Structural Engineer Surveyor Facilities General Constructor SOCIAL HOUSING…. low-income housing…. - Allocated on the basis of need - Provides affordable housing - Tightly regulated - Owned & managed by social landlords Social housing is housing that is let at low rents and on a secure basis to people in housing need. It is generally provided by councils and not-for-profit organizations such as housing associations. http: //england. shelter. org. uk Mahsa S. F. Moosavi

Tetris apartments, Ljubljana – Slovenia, (2005 -2007) http: //www. geo isla. com Project Architect Landscape Architect Clients Interior Architect Project Manager Project Architect Construction Company Clients Government Structural Engineer Surveyor Facilities General Constructor Morphosis TETRIS APARTMENTS In The location is on the edge of the planned 650 apartments which was finished year ago. Also this apartment block is social type and was sold to Slovenian Housing Fund. The given urban plot of the building was 4 floors high, 58 meters long and 15 in width. Each apartment has view towards its own balcony, sometimes there is also a glazed loggia. On this way intimacy is created and there will be no direct views from ones apartment directly to the others in the opposite block. Apartments are of different sizes – from 30 m 2 studio flats up to 3 room apartment of 70 m 2. They are made of economic but quality materials such as wooden oak floors, granite tiled bathrooms and have large windows with external metal blinds. The concept of structure is made in a way, that floor plans are flexible, since only structural walls are those, that separate apartment shell from the rest of the building. All other inner walls are non-structural. The cost per square meter had to be 650 EUR/m 2 since the selling cost was 1300 EUR/m 2. Tetris Apartments Mahsa S. F. Moosavi - Client: Empcea Municipal de la Vivienda city of Madrid - the construction budget: 600 ERRO/sqm -Completed units are offered for sale or rent at a third of the market vate - Client: Gradis G group , Ljubljana - the construction budget: 650 ERRO/sqm -This apartment block is social type and was sold to Slovenian Housing Fund. 1200 ERRO/sqm