A sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated metal panels outline this dwelling in Madrid, Spain, designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects.
Designed for an ageing couple with growing mobility difficulties, Past-the-family Kin by Ignacio G Galán and Alvaro M Fidalgo and Arantza Ozaeta of OF Architects seeks to encourage social connections to be able to create new networks of interdependence for the house owners.
“Take care of and by older people has many instances been enacted throughout the nuclear household, typically hosted in intergenerational households,” the architects instructed Dezeen.
“We think about this undertaking as a substitute for these, opening up an area for brand spanking new types of kinship, new interdependencies, and new types of assist inside a community of infrastructures shaping a renewed social motion for getting older in place.”
The house’s daring exterior is offset by inexperienced metal used for shutters, railings and furnishings, whereas a hotter inside palette options oak wooden and tiled flooring.
A sequence of cascading gardens wrap across the dwelling, offering out of doors seating together with a small pool. A roof terrace offers extra gardening and out of doors house for the couple.
“Whereas new constructions within the space have a tendency to show a lot of the social life in the direction of patios positioned on the rear aspect of their heaps, the design of this home learns from older homes within the neighborhood that open in the direction of a entrance patio extra immediately linked to the road,” the architects mentioned.
“On this method, the totally different social networks that the home hosts are additionally linked with bigger social constructions within the space… as a method of countering isolation.”
The bottom flooring, accessed from the road through a brief ramp, opens right into a residing and eating room with a sawtooth roof, with an adjoining kitchen overlooking the entrance gardens.
A brief hall, main from the residing house into the couple’s en-suite bed room, offers built-in storage, whereas one other hall on the rear leads out to a small, enclosed courtyard.
Operable home windows within the sawtooth roof have been coupled with automatised louvers that management warmth features and lighting to create a effectively ventilated and cozy inside.
Moreover, photo voltaic panels, held up by a outstanding inexperienced metal construction on the roof, are used to energy the house’s heated flooring.
The decrease flooring, outlined by its concrete exterior, hosts an unbiased residing unit designed to supply the residents with the chance to both lease out the house for monetary stability or host an in-house carer if required.
Two extra en-suite bedrooms are offered on the higher flooring, together with a shared kitchen unit.
Different not too long ago accomplished tasks regarding aged housing embrace a senior housing undertaking in London that attracts on conventional almshouses and a multi-generational housing scheme organised round a communal backyard in Germany.
The images is by Imagen Subliminal.
Challenge credit:
Architects: Ignacio G. Galán, Alvaro Martin Fidalgo, and Arantza Ozaeta
Collaborators: Ana Herreros Cantís, Natalia Molina, Paula Rodriguez Vara, Pablo Saiz del Rio
Structural engineers: Mecanismo Ingenieria
