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On: Jul 9, 07
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Madrid's Sustainable Housing Project


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Madrid's Sustainable Housing Project
Public Housing Designed by Leading Architects - Madrid's Sustainable Housing Project (GALLERY) 2

Public Housing Designed by Leading Architects - Madrid's Sustainable Housing Project (GALLERY)
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Carabanchel is a depressed area in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The local government has decided to revamp and update this area, and their first big project has been building a sustainable public housing project developed by the famous and worldwide renowned Foreign Office Architects studio.  The building project has 88 units of different sizes, with an amazing and fully functional cooling system: bamboo louvres (shades).

Faced with a shortage of public housing, the City of Madrid commissioned Foreign Office Architects to create a sustainable multi-unit residential alternative for its new public housing development at Carabanchel. Simply known as Carabanchel 16, this building shows how you can is a simple housing design transformed into a beautiful canvas of light and shadow using the simplest tool in an architect’s arsenal: shading devices. For most cities, the need to create affordable housing would mean erecting mass quantities of mediocre housing stock of without much regard to the real needs of the occupants or the environment. Not so for Madrid, which commissioned its public-sector works office, EMVS, to work with some of the best architects in the world to create what can only be described as an open gallery of social architecture. (arts.guardian)

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