Social Dwellings 42 Units

Salburua, Spain
2008
Residential
4.395 m² / 47.307 ft²

The project explores the relationship between collective housing and public space, opening the ground floor to establish continuity between the street and the shared courtyard.

The project rethinks the relationship between collective housing and public space. Rather than acting as a linear boundary, the building opens its ground floor through generous permeable porches, establishing continuity between the street and the shared courtyard while transforming access into a place for meeting, interaction and everyday life.

The dwellings are organized around a central service core that concentrates all technical functions while freeing the remaining floor area as a continuous, naturally lit and flexible living space. This arrangement accommodates different ways of inhabiting and allows future adaptations without compromising the essential organization of each dwelling. Flexibility is understood not as an added feature, but as a direct consequence of the architectural organization.

Construction follows a logic of precision and economy. A continuous metal envelope, prefabricated systems and a restrained palette of building components define an architecture where repetition, industrialization and material clarity become part of the building’s expression.