In the Villaverde district of southern Madrid, a new social housing project was commissioned by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda (Municipal Housing Company). Located on a prominent boulevard on a site previously occupied by a factory, the project was part of a wider regeneration scheme for the area. The brief for the building was clearly defined: a U-shaped block fifteen metres deep, eight storeys high and capped with a pitched roof, all within a 2,000 square-metre footprint. The resulting block comprises 176 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments.