Identification	Renovation and Enlargment of building for 5 housing
Situation	Pedro Miguel 30-32. Sevilla
Project day	2006
Work to date	2008
Architects	MARISOL GARCÍA TORRENTE UBALDO GARCÍA TORRENTE
Partners	Miguel Villegas
Quantity Surveyors	GONZALO RODRÍGUEZ SALAIGNAC
Others Partners	Fernando Alda. Fotógrafo
Promoter	ZOOOM, SIETEREVUELTASSIETE
Companies	ZOOOM, SIETEREVUELTASSIETE
Publications	LA VANGUARDIA MAGAZINE. 26 oct 2008
Awards

Housing is not only a refuge in adversity outside or a form of social appearance. Today more than ever, it aims to be a reflection of our own desires, the active site to leisure or recreational activities and comfortable space for complacency and joy, in short, where make possible the various and unpredictable attitudes of the fact contemporary. Therefore, the housing must be approached from a encouraging attitude and plural, open and available, promoting what custom, the different, compared to standard, what is different and able, contrary to stereotype, the vacuum amplitude qualified and flexible, compared to the partitioning specialized, the subject home, alive, in front of the home object interpersonal relationships active, compared to the neighborhood, the housing landscape, against the landscape of neighborhoods. 30-Pedro Miguel-32 wants to be an alternative to housing promotions to use. A stimulus for a positive life attitude, uninhibited and creative. The changes introduced over time in the life of the inhabitants of a building housing a review are overcome by the architecture which accommodates these residents. It is time that shapes the building and forced to adapt to the changes that life requires, or where appropriate, the sentence to disappear. Any action in the city, also the architectural, inevitably has two dimensions: the public and private, will be more or less depending on the degree of woven permeability of the same. A simple stroll in the city of Seville can guess that this relationship remains on a level near what it could be assumed in earlier centuries. The fact that there are two historic cities in Seville, the historic north and south, has caused one of them, the northern town, still retains a large extent, a way of life very different from those historical sites, today inhabited almost in their entirety by cultural and social backgrounds rather than those that formed following the transfer to the outskirts and slums of a population continues to live a lifestyle, but certainly conditioned by the spaces they now live. In this sense, in the north central town of Seville, yet naturally develops a way of life, which is none other than "the soul of the city," today, part of their heritage. A living heritage, the heritage dead is preserved in the ships of the museums and textbooks, which manifests itself continuously with its own laws, not always kind or assumed by the administration and, of course unpredictable, for much study on it is thrown. For all this talk at this stage of architectural and urban analysis based on building typologies, the urban morphology or semantic structure, becomes part of the analytical archeology only makes sense from a point of view of any students of bata and library. The city, these areas of the city, as living entity has other laws, closer to the idea of movement, the sense of the fleeting, the transformation of the transitory, of the unexpected. Nothing is more futile than trying to catch an agent in a continual state of transformation. It was not easy to maintain this quality, the resident population for years maintained a position of strength, government awareness that there are other ways to rehabilitate the historic centers, which their old ways of life can be the basis for experimental study most current proposals, and that all this is possible while maintaining essential residential structure in which the vast majority of the residents who have inhabited these areas for generations. We propose new arguments since they do not want to be neither "type" or "criteria" widespread, but a line of research in a particular place based on flexibility and adaptability to circumstances. Do not forget that the life of a building is much more extensive in time than its inhabitants. Existing residents will be replaced by other approaches whose life and circumstances are very different: the concept of family, lifestyle, the idea of comfort, furniture, coverings, appearance, consumer objects, objects identification or ornamentation, the fragmentation and specialization of space, functionality, appropriate way of the ordinary, light, texture, color, etc. They also need new and innovative responses. The potential of this intervention, not only on the load or landscape values, history, tradition and culture, urban and architectural, historical and archaeological centers like Sevilla. A second potential hidden from the eyes of the passer, which is able to observe a sequence of unitary facade, more or less orderly and regular, and known what happens beyond these walls. The building No. 30-32 Pedro Miguel Street in Seville was a clear example of commitment, appropriation and redistribution that different situations require or allow life to carry out its inhabitants, squeezing the maximum solar surface while reduce its free zones to be unable to physically get to them. A swap in which the premium placed on space requirements useful in sacrifice the use and enjoyment of something so important in the Mediterranean culture as the playground and common areas. In the result is messy interwoven character, randomized, depositor, with some immediacy and innocence. The architectural quality of the result is quite low in terms of structure, composition, quality of construction, etc. However, the richness of these situations is something deeper, lies in the multitude of possibilities that has shown the building, thanks to its simplicity and versatility, and the potential future changes or mutations in, as this intervention will allow us. Not be forgotten that living conditions, hygiene and safety, accessibility and comfort, efficiency and economy, should prevail in any project, always seeking the homes give a satisfactory answer to its current inhabitants, the future, the occasional and permanent. The decision to re-create five homes in what were once other quite different, does not respond to a simple return the building to its original state, or re-order what "seems" messy, it is increase the chances of these new homes to match capabilities and re-adapt to the reality that current demand. Thus, the housing opening their holes to the various courts, also have direct access to them, enjoying the privacy and intimacy desirable, and a free space to permit the exterior-interior connection and relationship. The strategy here is to get housing, which in most cases may have different views of outdoor spaces to empower them enough to develop a comfortable life there. It seeks to leverage those characters edificatoria own idiosyncrasies, such as hallways, which are kept as a filter to the outside patios that constitute true relationship spaces, balconies that offer traditional media beyond the visual to the street and roof, as extension of the house above the last cast, allowing the realization of activities within the Mediterranean climate or cool clothespins on summer nights. In any case the ladder is raised as the core of vertical connection, whose strong presence structured and organized the main spaces. In short we have tried to provide a compositional clarity that allows a multitude of uses and spaces. Not dictate how to live, but infinite ways possible, while responding to specific requirements introduced as a premise, that are addressed as something that has always been there. Given the state of the building and the possibility of the planning regulations, it was decided to demolish these buildings, except the front bay so as to construct a new building linked to the bay front. Under the new building will run to a basement garage. The project involves the demolition under the construction of a multifamily residential building between party with a program of five houses and seven parking spaces. Thus, the building is built around two courtyards of 6.80 mx 5.35 m, one of them. The medians are hidden from all spaces on two floors. To meet these objectives, the design solution has been adopted as general rehabilitation of the first bay of the facade, keeping the load-bearing walls in this situation. The following has shaped the space / vacuum introducing new spaces, looking for opportunities in your size, fit within the permissible limits of the different bays. Later houses were organized, adjusting to the new preset programs, promoting at all times those defining elements of the building. In this sense remains the entrance hall, the facade and the first bay. Similarly, the position is held by the main staircase, while making a new one implementation, all of them supplemented with the introduction of an elevator, elevator car direct access from front to the basement where is located the parking garage for seven cars. On the ground floor the building is organized to maintain access from the street, ie the front door, the entrance hall and main staircase, which takes place in an area sequenced spaces at first and second bay. The rest of the front bay clogs with elevator access to the elevator car. At second bay is developed the first patio, large from which you access one of the homes, and continuing to the bottom of the site the second patio access to two other housing. From the main staircase is accessed the first floor where a gallery located on the south side of the court first gives access to housing 4 and 5 and the access ladder to the roof. The roof is flat and has an elevated 1.20 m. where there is a small pool with wooden sundeck constituting the entire roof as a community recreation area. The courtyards will serve to shed light on the different rooms of the houses and galleries, so that their planes vertical pierced with large holes of different sizes and position, depending on the needs of the space they illuminate. The facade of the building has been amended from the existing practice so that a gap of 3.75 m. which will provide access to the garage and will seal all except the ground floor entrance door to the hallway, the other first floor spaces are altered only in the vertical dimension, not in position or width, so that they are both enhanced for modifying the composition of the facade. At the same time the exterior has been fitted with a large base of steel sheet 4mm thick in the entire height of the ground floor with no differentiation between voids and walls. Four houses are duplex, two organizations on the ground floor and first and one on ground floor and attic, to avoid overlapping vertical housing and enhance privacy. Only one house is organized on the first floor so that is organized as a loft that occupies the entire first bay of the bay west facade and the courtyard, beneath it lie the common areas and access to the garage entrance. In the common areas have used a wood flooring cuperizado pine boards, nailed to wooden battens. The lining of the courts is of prefabricated sandwich panel, the ArcelorMittal brand, consisting of two steel sheets, galvanized and other pre-washed one among which is placed an insulating material polyurethane. The woodwork of the windows of the housing is anodized aluminum patios with thermal break Laminex brand. The general steps of the building and inside the houses have been executed with steel sheet 4 mm thick, in some cases painted and varnished. The floor of the interior of the housing is solid wood parquet of Elondo.