This multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens is designed as a comfortable hotel-like composition. My concept adopts the specific urban pattern of the area, reassembling it along a main axis, based on rules that generate hierarchy and privacy.
This spine-like compositional axis works as an interior street cutting through the building. The whole becomes "a city within the city"
An urban square lies in the northern part of the plot, so that is where I positioned the main access point.
The upper floors of all four main volumes are exclusively meant for housing, while additional facilities and services are located on their ground levels.
The ground level of the 1st volume includes the administration, the 2nd volume has dining and leisure, the 3rd volume stands for healthcare and the last one accommodates the elderly that require special attention.
The level of privacy increases as one navigates through the building. A key role in this hierarchy is played by the interior and intermediary courtyards, each provided with clearly defined uses, so that each one serves a designated category of users.
An urban square lies in the northern part of the plot, so that is where I positioned the main access point.
The upper floors of all four main volumes are exclusively meant for housing, while additional facilities and services are located on their ground levels.
The ground level of the 1st volume includes the administration, the 2nd volume has dining and leisure, the 3rd volume stands for healthcare and the last one accommodates the elderly that require special attention.
The level of privacy increases as one navigates through the building. A key role in this hierarchy is played by the interior and intermediary courtyards, each provided with clearly defined uses, so that each one serves a designated category of users.
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