1000m2 Prefabricated Housing | SUMMARY

The requirements for this project were boldly defined from the beginning: the construction should be fast, cost-effective, and changeable over time, which prompted the studio to use prefabricated elements and to leave parts of the project undefined, assuming the immediacy, flexibility, and resource optimization as core themes.

The first floor is composed of Gomos System units. Considering that the maximum building area permitted by law was quite small, the requested empty space was used to separate the housing units. Designed and licensed as a collective housing building, with this feature this project offers the main advantages of single houses: clearly individualized entrances and complete acoustic separation between the different units.

The ground floor is shaped by prefabricated slabs and structural panels in the external perimeter. This area was conceived in a very flexible way: it’s possible to add or remove compartments or let the whole floor function as a big open space. Thus, the users may adapt the space according to their needs.

In the whole building, the structural material – precast concrete – is directly exposed, without any additional finishing, thus reducing the resources, manpower, and the arts involved in the construction process and, consequently, reducing its environmental impact.

This approach has a direct effect on the acceleration of the building process: all its components are fully prepared in the factory and quickly assembled in situ, performing at once as structure, insulation, and cladding elements.