HDC in Monte Gordo
Monte Gordo is a former fishing village located between the ocean and a vast pine forest.
The intervention predicted a complex of 12 controlled cost apartment buildings under an HDC regime, set in a neighbourhood with services (crèche), leisure areas
(football grounds), shops and areas of collective use (church).
The programme predicted typologies of one, two and three bedrooms, distributed in 170 homes planned for multi-family housing on buildings with 4 floors. Some lots has one building only, whereas the others will accommodate several contiguous buildings.
Both share the same car park in the communal basement underneath.
The façades are the protagonists of this project, since the main façade and the rear façade are differentiated although they have a common element: the balcony.
Each apartment can enjoy the outside areas as the main elevation has a balcony all along its length, communicating with the kitchens and living rooms.
Inside the apartments have a hall/corridor from which lead off the living room, kitchen, bedrooms and bathrooms.
The small balconies of the rear elevation are exclusively for individual use, promoting a good spatial distinction that evokes greater privacy in the home.
Conceptually, the interior is extended to the exterior through the balcony areas, reproducing the meteorological culture of a place where it is always possible
to enjoy the open air.
