Suburban archipelago

The competition site is interpreted as the consolidated edge of a new urbanised island whose prospective programme and strategic location define a critical node of social intensification within the peripheral territory of the city.
The project develops a permeable threshold to the existing neighbourghood, as well as a spatial and programmatic graduation from the future park to the ring road. The solid spaces involve a system of interwoven cluster blocks that open to the low-rise houses in the north while defining a more continuous edge facing the planned commercial centre and housing in the south. From tower flats with mountain vistas to patio villas with private gardens, each block offers a variety of housing scenarios. Typological features include home-office interfaces, multiple access, private patios and winter gardens, screened terraces, split-level units.