Social Housing in Nazaret

The project is located in an old fishing village outside of Valencia. Intermittent growth and a clear lack of urban planning have made this village a chaos of construction heights and types.

Our proposal is to follow the rhythm of the buildings’ heights that surround the lot, making what in reality is chaos into a rule, which defines our volumes.

The houses, linked by drawing a “Z”, come near to one of the boundaries of the lot that faces the street and they are separated from the other boundaries by the green space of a promenade which continues into our lot.

The “Z”; would shape the covered courtyards and semi-private spaces that encourage human interaction; we are always asking our architecture to have this quality.

Each house is set back with the aim of locating the living areas in the corners which makes possible greater angles of spaciousness in the volume.