- ETSAM School of Architecture,
UPM Technical University of Madrid
DPA Department of Architectural Design
Office 83 (new building)
Avd. Juan de Herrera 4, Madrid
Gustavo Rojas Pérez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Architectural Design, Faculty Member
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETSAM Architectural Design Department, Department Memberadd
- Housing, Housing & Residential Design, Housing and Dwelling (Architecture), Social Housing, Architecture, Temporary Housing, and 16 moreDomestic Space, Urban mobility, Mobility/Mobilities, Urban Sociology, Mobility Studies, Residential Mobility, Urban Design, Social Mobility, Multilocality, Multilocal Housing, Mobility, Urban Geography, Architectural Design, Nomadism, Multilocality Studies, and Hábitat Y Viviendaedit
- PhD candidate | Architectural Design Department - Technical University of Madridedit
Inhabiting implies necessarily leaving traces in the physical space: they are the authentic signs of its occupation. The internalization and the apprehension of the space involve the accomplishment of transformations, necessary for the... more
Inhabiting implies necessarily leaving traces in the physical space: they are the authentic signs of its occupation. The internalization and the apprehension of the space involve the accomplishment of transformations, necessary for the full adaptation of the inhabitants to the above mentioned environment. These transformations provide the basis of an action in which chronological time acts as the determinant parameter in the regulation of the intensity of these adaptive processes. In this way, the act of inhabiting reveals its maximum expression within the domestic space.
The aim of this paper is to delve into the nature of the transformation process undergone by contemporary urban housing as a consequence of the increasing movements within the city and the metropolitan areas. The result has been a consistent reduction in the period of time individuals spend in the domestic space. This increasing social dynamic can be understood as a new version of nomadism which, unlike the traditional concept, only refers to the variability of the position of the individuals and not their material belongings. Drawing on this perspective, it is possible to state that this trend has increased urban life by reducing physical presence within the dwelling. This, therefore, has caused that the act of leaving traces as signs of occupation, has also been modified. At the present time, these traces are less intense and easily erasable.
From the analysis of two relevant cases, the GWL Terrain Housing from Neutelings Riedijk and the EDA Apartments from R. Nishizawa, this paper tries to disclose a research path about the architectural aspects characterizing this new way of producing the domestic space: dimensional reduction, functional atomization, optimization of the spatial layout, and efficiency of the urban facilities.
The aim of this paper is to delve into the nature of the transformation process undergone by contemporary urban housing as a consequence of the increasing movements within the city and the metropolitan areas. The result has been a consistent reduction in the period of time individuals spend in the domestic space. This increasing social dynamic can be understood as a new version of nomadism which, unlike the traditional concept, only refers to the variability of the position of the individuals and not their material belongings. Drawing on this perspective, it is possible to state that this trend has increased urban life by reducing physical presence within the dwelling. This, therefore, has caused that the act of leaving traces as signs of occupation, has also been modified. At the present time, these traces are less intense and easily erasable.
From the analysis of two relevant cases, the GWL Terrain Housing from Neutelings Riedijk and the EDA Apartments from R. Nishizawa, this paper tries to disclose a research path about the architectural aspects characterizing this new way of producing the domestic space: dimensional reduction, functional atomization, optimization of the spatial layout, and efficiency of the urban facilities.
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La vivienda urbana ha adquirido en las últimas décadas una consideración como lugar de uso temporal, un lugar de paso dentro de la red de lugares que el habitante frecuenta de forma cotidiana. La itinerancia social y la ampliación de la... more
La vivienda urbana ha adquirido en las últimas décadas una consideración como lugar de uso temporal, un lugar de paso dentro de la red de lugares que el habitante frecuenta de forma
cotidiana. La itinerancia social y la ampliación de la oferta de servicios en la ciudad, han provocado que su ocupación sea más fugaz y con un uso más selectivo. La dimensión urbana que adquiere ha dado lugar a una ampliación psicológica y física de sus límites a todo el espacio de la ciudad y del territorio. Esta relación entre la movilidad urbana y el espacio doméstico fue, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, uno de los aspectos centrales del debate teórico sobre la vivienda en la metrópolis. Una reflexión desde donde surge el modelo de vivienda metropolitana que Elia Zenghelis explora durante los años setenta a través de dos proyectos para Manhattan: el Egg of Columbus Center y el Hotel Sphinx. Dos operaciones urbanas idealizadas en las que se introduce el concepto de hotel residencial como una redefinición de la tipología tradicional de hotel readaptada como solución para la vivienda colectiva común.
A través del análisis de las características de este modelo de espacio doméstico, el presente artículo pretende poner de manifiesto algunas de las cualidades implícitas desde su condición
de lugar de paso: la continuidad entre lo público y lo privado, la expansión de los límites de la vivienda y la transitoriedad como condición propia de los objetos y de las actividades.
cotidiana. La itinerancia social y la ampliación de la oferta de servicios en la ciudad, han provocado que su ocupación sea más fugaz y con un uso más selectivo. La dimensión urbana que adquiere ha dado lugar a una ampliación psicológica y física de sus límites a todo el espacio de la ciudad y del territorio. Esta relación entre la movilidad urbana y el espacio doméstico fue, durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, uno de los aspectos centrales del debate teórico sobre la vivienda en la metrópolis. Una reflexión desde donde surge el modelo de vivienda metropolitana que Elia Zenghelis explora durante los años setenta a través de dos proyectos para Manhattan: el Egg of Columbus Center y el Hotel Sphinx. Dos operaciones urbanas idealizadas en las que se introduce el concepto de hotel residencial como una redefinición de la tipología tradicional de hotel readaptada como solución para la vivienda colectiva común.
A través del análisis de las características de este modelo de espacio doméstico, el presente artículo pretende poner de manifiesto algunas de las cualidades implícitas desde su condición
de lugar de paso: la continuidad entre lo público y lo privado, la expansión de los límites de la vivienda y la transitoriedad como condición propia de los objetos y de las actividades.
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For over a century, considerations on housing have developed independently from those concerning institutional and public architecture. To such degree that research methods, theoretical approaches, critical analysis or classification... more
For over a century, considerations on housing have developed independently from those concerning institutional and public architecture. To such degree that research methods, theoretical approaches, critical analysis or classification systems differ when focusing on each of these two fields. Recently, this situation has become especially pronounced: speaking about housing today implies the use of a specific vocabulary associated to rationalism, objectivity, functionalism or economy, far from the one that has supported the formalist and structural (and because of this, economic) wastes in recent past.
The aim of this paper is to detect and analyse some of the terms that are starting to constitute a representative vocabulary of the housing design conditions of the new century and to try to base the construction of theoretical foundations for a future lexicon on them. This attempt of systematization tries to infer design theory from the projects themselves with the support of the ideas that architects put forward and critics provide. The ultimate purpose is to identify procedures of renovation, experimental initiatives and new strategies for contemporary housing design.
Terms as passing-by home, domestic dispersion, atomization, flexibility, neutrality, post-public space, city housing reversibility or hybrid entities come together with recent experiences in which new ways of urban inhabiting consolidate, rendering inoperative conventional housing typologies. Uncovering some of these notions, which some residential schemes manifest today, can help to clarify and categorize the panorama of contemporary housing design and to generate a specific theory different from the one inherited from the Modern Movement. Exploring this new glossary reveals the continuity of many terms with the typical words of the theoretical framework from the first half of the 20th century. Others, nonetheless, have been recently shaped or have changed considerably their original meaning, such as flexibility. Others have completely disappeared like the once essential Existenzminimum, nowadays replaced with the inspiring notions of extra-space, double-space or more with less.
Our effort as research team is focused on the construction of this necessary theory for housing design in times of crisis.""
The aim of this paper is to detect and analyse some of the terms that are starting to constitute a representative vocabulary of the housing design conditions of the new century and to try to base the construction of theoretical foundations for a future lexicon on them. This attempt of systematization tries to infer design theory from the projects themselves with the support of the ideas that architects put forward and critics provide. The ultimate purpose is to identify procedures of renovation, experimental initiatives and new strategies for contemporary housing design.
Terms as passing-by home, domestic dispersion, atomization, flexibility, neutrality, post-public space, city housing reversibility or hybrid entities come together with recent experiences in which new ways of urban inhabiting consolidate, rendering inoperative conventional housing typologies. Uncovering some of these notions, which some residential schemes manifest today, can help to clarify and categorize the panorama of contemporary housing design and to generate a specific theory different from the one inherited from the Modern Movement. Exploring this new glossary reveals the continuity of many terms with the typical words of the theoretical framework from the first half of the 20th century. Others, nonetheless, have been recently shaped or have changed considerably their original meaning, such as flexibility. Others have completely disappeared like the once essential Existenzminimum, nowadays replaced with the inspiring notions of extra-space, double-space or more with less.
Our effort as research team is focused on the construction of this necessary theory for housing design in times of crisis.""
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The extensive spread in suburban areas of major Spanish cities during the last 20 years has revealed the need to return downtown. After reconsidering the recent history of large-scale urban projects in Madrid, new approaches to the... more
The extensive spread in suburban areas of major Spanish cities during the last 20 years has revealed the need to return downtown. After reconsidering the recent history of large-scale urban projects in Madrid, new approaches to the obsolete collective housing in the consolidated city have revealed the existing residential areas as an infrastructure potentially capable of absorbing the complexity of the unpredictable future. The challenge lies in using new mental constructs on an old support in order to carry out the design of 21st century housing on a 19th or 20th century “shell”. The aim of this paper is to dig a bit deeper into these conditions, criteria and scope for the redesign of the obsolete collective housing in the consolidated city.
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El objetivo de este artículo es obtener una visión más profunda de las características, condiciones, criterios y posibilidades del proyecto residencial actual en la vivienda colectiva obsoleta de la ciudad consolidada. El fracaso del... more
El objetivo de este artículo es obtener una visión más profunda de las características, condiciones, criterios y posibilidades del proyecto residencial actual en la vivienda colectiva obsoleta de la ciudad consolidada. El fracaso del crecimiento extensivo en la periferia durante los últimos veinte años ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de defender la vuelta al centro.
Para ello, las políticas de construcción de vivienda ex novo deben dejar paso a otras políticas que consideren el parque residencial existente como materia de proyecto para la ciudad contemporánea. El futuro inmediato de ésta se centra en la definición de operaciones estratégicas de regeneración funcional y tipológica del tejido residencial de la ciudad existente. El reto es utilizar construcciones intelectuales nuevas sobre un soporte antiguo, esto es, llevar a cabo el proyecto de la vivienda del siglo XXI sobre una "carcasa" del XIX o del XX.
La solución proyectual a dicha idea no pasa por hacer un proyecto específico para cada caso, sino por definir un proyecto genérico para la ciudad heredada y que se dejará en herencia. Las medidas de actualización de lo existente a escala residencial deben encaminarse hacia la neutralización del soporte habitable, la optimización de los recursos energéticos y la consecución de una regulación alternativa. Se pretende concebir, en definitiva, el edificio o la manzana de la ciudad consolidada de tipo postindustrial como una infraestructura residencial de uso público, donde la vivienda sea entendida como un servicio y no como un producto.
Palabras clave: vivienda colectiva; ciudad consolidada; centro urbano; renovación residencial.
Para ello, las políticas de construcción de vivienda ex novo deben dejar paso a otras políticas que consideren el parque residencial existente como materia de proyecto para la ciudad contemporánea. El futuro inmediato de ésta se centra en la definición de operaciones estratégicas de regeneración funcional y tipológica del tejido residencial de la ciudad existente. El reto es utilizar construcciones intelectuales nuevas sobre un soporte antiguo, esto es, llevar a cabo el proyecto de la vivienda del siglo XXI sobre una "carcasa" del XIX o del XX.
La solución proyectual a dicha idea no pasa por hacer un proyecto específico para cada caso, sino por definir un proyecto genérico para la ciudad heredada y que se dejará en herencia. Las medidas de actualización de lo existente a escala residencial deben encaminarse hacia la neutralización del soporte habitable, la optimización de los recursos energéticos y la consecución de una regulación alternativa. Se pretende concebir, en definitiva, el edificio o la manzana de la ciudad consolidada de tipo postindustrial como una infraestructura residencial de uso público, donde la vivienda sea entendida como un servicio y no como un producto.
Palabras clave: vivienda colectiva; ciudad consolidada; centro urbano; renovación residencial.