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The predominance of balconies in all floors, which not only filter the direct sunlight towards the inside, but also allows the user to have a constant contact with the outdoor space and benefit from natural ventilation, reducing energy consumption and allowing the inner air to be renovated more often.
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KALMAR FLOODABLE CITY
SWEDEN
The Kalmar City Council (Sweden) proposed a new urban area with more than 3,000 homes in a well-known picturesque coastal area. The location is adjacent to an existing development of single-family homes. Given these parameters, the intervention is designed based on economic, social, environmental, and cultural sustainability through an urban development rooted in preserving the existing surroundings and reducing the territorial impact.
The proposal incorporates a statistical factor, since if the urban growth perpetuated the existing structure of single-family homes, it would occupy nearly 27% of the territory. Instead, the proposal incorporates a system of multi-family dwellings grouped into fourstory towers. The towers concentrate eight standard dwellings each, and thus the territorial occupation is reduced to only 2%.
Following this reflection, the restructuring is intended to consolidate and protect existing landscapes by reusing roads as axes of articulation to manage the parallel realities of the countryside and the city. However, the predictions for flooding in the coming years show considerable increases over time.
That makes it necessary to account for elevating both the access roads and the multi-family units on the ground floors by a margin of approximately three meters. This measure serves to complement the overall framework with a parameter that is no less important, and which encompasses all the others listed so far: the project’s long-term viability.
The flood forecast in the coming years increases considerably over time, which makes it necessary to anticipate the elevation on the ground to an approximate margin of three meters.
ON-A’s designs work as a catalyst for the creation of positive emotions among their inhabitants; physical/ visual well-being and comfort contribute to the occupants’ health and the flexible usability of the designed spaces.
