Guadalquivir 37 Urban Regeneration
The project consists in the regeneration of three housing units which were built in the eighties during the first growth of the city.
The aim was to change the typology and use of the spaces to provide openness, natural light and accommodate new ways of living in the neighbourhood.
The units were meant originally to fit families with two children, service room, laundry room and service patios and garage for two cars in 80 square meters approximately. The urban regeneration project aims to change the typological hegemony of the neighbourhood to introduce new uses and inhabitants.
To do this the laundry patios were substituted with interior gardens integrating the laundry machines in the kitchen allowing to have a continuous space between the interior garden, kitchen, dining room and living room.
Maid rooms where eliminated to give space to larger master bedrooms with natural ventilation and light as well as flexible studio spaces with sliding walls that respond to different needs of the inhabitants. Lime finishes, textures and a natural pigment color palette from the neighbourhood was integrated in order to maintain the characteristic 80s style of the neighbourhood. The main goal of the regeneration project is to transform specific elements of the units in order to accommodate not just a ´traditional family´ but also offer possibilities to other people such as young couples, students or single people
