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  • Corral de la Encarnación

    Identification CORRAL DE LA ENCARNACIÓN
    Situation PAGÉS DEL CORRO 128 Y 126-130. SEVILLA
    Project day 2006
    Work to date
    Architects MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
    Partners ISABEL MOTA PERNÍAS
    Quantity Surveyors CRISTINA SANABRIA RODRÍGUEZ
    Others Partners  Photography: FERNANDO ALDA
    Promoter OTAINSA [oficina técnica de asesoramiento a inquilinos en situación de abuso]. GERENCIA MUNICIPAL DE URBANISMO
    Companies Construction Company: DRAGADOS. Solar Energy: CHROMAGEN
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    Time introduces changes in the life of the inhabitants of a housing. These changes are a test to overcome by architecture. Time shapes the edifications and It forces them to adapt or convicts to disappearance. It's Time, and his wrenching effect on the object, who transforms architectural elements and revalidates, sometimes with cruelty, their level of good by showing that only those who survive are able to adapt to new circunstances. We mustn't forget that building's life is usually much more extensive in time than their dweller's life. The previous neighbors will be replaced by other ones whose life and personal circumstances will be quite differents.The idea of comfort, furniture, coverings, appearance, consumer objects, spatial fragmentation and specialization, the functionality, the way of appropriation of the common, light, texture, color, ... inevitably mutate into very different positions. It is by this that the fundamental premise of departure for the intervention has been the search for a flexible solution and adaptable to current circumstances, without preventing the development of future changes, without forgetting its adaptation to a life-sustaining system. In this sense, improvement in living conditions and sanitation of the building also played a vital role when designing. Do not forget that the living conditions, hygiene and sanitation, accessibility, comfort, efficiency and economy, should prevail in a project, always seeking the homes give a satisfactory answer to the inhabitants, the occasional and permanent ones. The potential of this intervention isn't only scenic value, historic and cultural tradition, or urban and architectural design that the Triana district has. Ther is a second hidden potential from the eyes of the traveler who only observes a sequence of more or less ordered and regular facades, and ignores what happens beyond these walls. The proposal is basically to keep the administrative division, types and uses of the two buildings that make up the whole complex, social center and tenements, being both united by a wall and a right of way and views of one over the other and vice versa. So the proposal is structured in the following acts:
    • Demolition and new construction of the main building for Social Center.
     
    • Restoration of the so-called Corral de Vecinos de la Encarnacion, with the use of housing, consisting of two rows of buildings around a courtyard longitudinal to the bottom of the plot. Both rows are of a mezzanine floor and covered with a single slope roof, introducing some organizational change and constructive for new situation.
      The restoration of the tenement block, labeled as "Property of Ethnological Interest", is its adaptation, such as housing, suposes new forms and minimum quality of life that are now necessary. Well as preserving the building involves assuming the criteria are marked in their official declaration by implementing a set of standards and regulations that adequate and could permit this form of living conditions of the XXI century. In this sense, it's necessary to think about what it means way of life in a tenement block and how it can be, today, interesting. Therefore, isn't to preserve just a building, but a way of life. One caracteristic way to inhabit a space in those areas and whose loss wouldn't have solution. Firstly, It would supose a decline in the historical memory of the evolution of Andalusia and, secondly and perhaps more importantly, We would lose the ability to review and strengthen this housing form to continue its logical evolution in a time when the modern movement is in crisis of values. In this sense, to inhabit a space like this is to reflect on:
    • The tense relationship between the individual and the common and the dissolution of boundaries.
    • The idea of temporal instability.
    The Modern Movement developed a range of building types clearly marking the division between private and common. This greatly enriched the social landscape by allowing infinite evolution of both aspects which are still bearing fruit surprising. The common space starts from the private space, and vice versa. However, these same weapons that tried to set limits, have meant that today more than ever, certain arguments resume living together. Probably one of the factors that have fueled this position is the high cost of living and the inability of certain segments of the population to access your own unique space. Faced with this problem are beginning to open doors to new forms negotiated today are seen as commitment to the future in a society increasingly diverse and rich: temporary unions of couples; temporary unions of individuals who enrich the life in communion n; associations, according to different legal ways to share and enjoy individual spaces that would be unthinkable, such as renovation old buildings, old factories for conversion into offices or homes where teleworking; adjustments in buildings and associations more or less regulated, to share a certain age, a number of domestic services and medical care without the close family unit ... etc. It is there in that line where it is possible to argue new forms of association and new ways of living spaces recovered.