The project tries to establish a symbiosis between the aspects of the traditional Mediterranean house – the entrance/atrium, the internal street of access to the houses, the patio-garden of the Roman house, etc. – with the intentions of the movement modern, such as the concrete structure, the splitting into duplex, the recovery of the roof, etc...
Likewise, construction is understood as an artisanal process with a high prevalence of trades, using old techniques such as plastered lime stucco, appliqués or marble gravel pavements, together with the most sophisticated techniques in the treatment of plastics, glass and aluminum.
The fact that the new regulations of the A.M.B qualify large areas of urban centres as extensive residential (12 and 13) – where the great height of the unfolded ground floor equals the main body of the building, together with the fact that more than 50% of the building is not intended for residence – I think that it forces a fairly radical reconsideration in the preparation of the project, both in compositional criteria and in programmatic and typological ones.
In this short report I will limit myself to listing some of the intentions of the project that foreshadow the result, without going into considerations about the formal language used.
1- Complying with the regulations regarding parking spaces – avoiding the trauma of the ramp and the use of a small basement between the partition walls – led me to the solution of the lateral garages on the ground floor.
2- The entrance atrium avoids the theme of the receding loft, giving the duplex premises a higher quality in the form of a small gallery.
3- The layout of the staircase and the replacement of the lift by a small freight lift frees up the centre allowing a more global and clear reading from the lobby.
4- The sum of the circulation spaces with the necessary surfaces of interior courtyards allows greater generosity in the treatment of community space, transforming it into a street and interior courtyard.
5- The choice of a typology of duplex homes, recovering for each of them its proportional part of the roof-solarium, turns them almost into terraced homes.
6- The recovery of the patio-garden inside the island, taking advantage of the existing unevenness, allows the location of the underground premises and the small duplex studios with access from the ground floor.
