The aim of the sustainable residential complex, designed by Morfearch, is not only the production of new buildings able to satisfy living space requests, but the will to offer public services to the new settlement and open to the “outer” population. The project area, crossed north to south by divergent paths, generates trapezoidal spaces that become the generating principle of the different parts of the whole complex: every secondary parcel is indeed composed by different size tanks, 30 to 120cm high, open to different uses, materials, and patterns: green areas, water, paved spaces, vegetation and gardens, available for residents with a leisure, but also social, function. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The same generating principle, that extrudes quadrangular shapes from the ground within a controlled design, characterizes the three residential buildings, hosting housing areas for 19.500 m2 integrated by public services. The three divergent blocks have different heights with a central “impluvium” and their development is “broken” in different points where paths cross them penetrating the buildings. Public services and functions are indeed located on ground floor: semi-transparent polycarbonate boxes and “bubbles” host bikes parking lots, libraries, common laundries, ateliers, cafeterias and so on; their evanescent and colorful material allows light to penetrate the whole ground floor without a sharp space division, but in a uniform and continuous way.
