Civerna park - Housing project // 4th year

As a site boundary maximum height was restricted to 13 levels as a surrounding buildings maintenance.

Most of the 360 degrees of views are very open and have a welcome impact according to a survey done in a site visit. Most of the building around does not have a particular character apart from being “boxy� and informal as a movement matter of the 70s.

Part of Malaga still works as a maze and to move from A to B can take more that you think by looking at Google maps. As said so, the proposal involves a double spiral circulation as movement of rotation and translation likewise to the Earth movement around the Sun. This seems a bit confusing of even our of traditional methods of vertical cores with vertical stairs. However, by moving in such a different way, the user indeed gets to know the building by heart and the transition from one floor to another occurs while communal spaces and arched cores appears through each level.

As a matter of preventing over density, each floor has its own character and level of flexibility.

As an instance, one floor has a small gym but more living areas but another floor has a bigger exercise area but less people living in that floor. This like this makes each level more interesting and forcing users to move from one floor to the other to achieve goals.

Green spaces as reflected before, are a very important matter not only in this project but also in every big growing city. There are different levels of terraces: some of them are completely privatize, other shared by a couple of neighbors and other completely open to the public. As a matter of fact, this is the biggest treasure anyone could wish for as most of gardens only exist in lower floors and general flats have problems when organizing events as a lack of space. This provide all this elements but also including natural ventilation, natural lighting and more importantly have a piece of nature within the house.