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Four VPO houses in a Navarra town win a prestigious architecture prize

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Four VPO houses in a Navarra town win a prestigious architecture prize

He Official College of Architects of Castilla La Mancha (COACM)in the category of registered architects working outside this community, issued the COACM “Miguel Fisac” Prize for “4 officially protected housing”in the Navarrese town of Garraldafor its “integration and reinterpretation of elements of local architecture”, according to the jury’s decision. It is the work of Nazareth Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Núñez and Juan Carrascosa.

THE construction site It started in October 2020 and ended on September 8, 2022. It has a constructed area of ​​828.96 m2 and 275.88 m2 of wood was used for it.

He project was created with two objectives, on the one hand, “its landscape integration into an environment as careful as that of Garralda and the Aézcoa Valley“, and, on the other hand, obtain “the highest quality of housing from the proposed housing”. During the competition phase, the architects carried out “in-depth research” on the history and characteristics of the municipality of Garralda, as well as an analysis of the typology of the Basque-Navarrese hamlet.

“In this study, we detected the invariants of the traditional buildingswhich we integrated and reinterpreted in our project: simple volumetry, gable roof, use of white coating on the facades, monks’ walls, continuous balcony and use of wood on the facade and the shutters”, summarizes Rodrigo.

Following this study, the architects divided the desired program into two volumes or buildings, with steeply sloping roofs, whose proportions “allow greater adaptation to the shapes of the territory“. These two pieces are arranged in opposite directions to “promote dialogue with the urban and landscape groups”.

Her choice of materials was “sensitive and respectful of the environment”. They solved the outer shell with just two materials. In the facade walls, the monks’ walls and those on the ground floor, white mortar was chosen as the finish of the facade made with the SATE system, which consists of placing insulating panels on a vertical supporting element, of which the installation is carried out from the outside. resulting in a continuous thermal envelope, without thermal bridges, of the surrounding walls of the house.

In the roofs and shutters of the galleries, the material used is heat treated pine wood“thus reinterpreting and recovering the use of wooden tiles, typical of the Aézcoa valley”. The roof and the gallery “are thus merged into a single element which gives the proposal its own identity”. “This reinterpretation of the archetype of the hamlet makes it possible to link the proposal with the collective memory of the place,” underlines COAM in a press release.

In the year 1898 Garralda suffered a fire which almost completely destroyed the city. Before this fire, the roofs of the buildings were made of wood, “a material that was not used during the reconstruction of the city, for fear that the situation would happen again.”

“Since then, obviously, fire safety conditions have improved considerably and there are extensive mandatory regulations regarding the spread of fires, defined by the Technical Building Code, which has allowed us recover the use of wood on the roof” explains Nazareth.

Inside outer space of the plot “no physical limit has been defined, allowing it to be understood as a continuity of the surrounding nature”. The design of the houses sought “the maximum possible flexibility, adaptability, neutrality and spatial quality, promoting different ways of living”. The complex has one house per floor in each of the two volumes, on the first floor and under the bridge, reserving the space available on the ground floor of the two buildings for common uses.

THE cross-laminated timber structure It is limited to the facade and the partition walls with common elements, “promoting the evolution of the useful life of the building”. These are also fully accessible accommodations.

Natural lighting and the arrangement of openings are among the “essential objectives” that the architects were taken into account to “guarantee the quality of the interior space, as well as the provision of large exterior terraces, which allow the connection with the landscape of the area, as occurs in the absence of physical boundaries”. The use of colors and materials inside was “intentionally neutral, to facilitate the appropriation and characterization of the space by its inhabitants”.

In addition to the Miguel Fisac ​​​​Prize of the COACM, the “4 officially protected housing” in Garralda, He also won the XVI Biennial Prize for Spanish Architecture and Urban Planning, Mention of the Luis Moreno Mansilla Prize (College of Architects of Madrid).

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