LINKED BLOCK
The proposed urban fabric is designed to promote a walking orientated city by designing a street grid with a high connectivity ratio. This urban grid is composed by “linked” blocks or super blocks, which are subdivided in nine smaller blocks each of 120m x 60m. Each small block recreates a town-like configuration that contains multiple and interconnected spaces.
SUSTAINABLE & DIVERSE URBAN LIFE
To provide a sustainable way of life in the city it is necessary to serve citizens with their basic needs within walking distance. The urban space created between two C-blocks is defined as the minimum sustainable urban unit and it provides with enough commercial and community spaces to satisfy the daily life of its inhabitants. This urban unit provides a diversity of facilities, commerce, housing typologies and public spaces creating an exciting melting pot of life.
CITY AND TOWN SCALE
The proposed urban fabric wishes to provide a combined spatial scale to its future citizens. On the one hand, a cosmopolitan and energetic urban scale in the city’s streets configured by the continuity of the block’s facades. On the other hand, the urban fabric provides with a town-like scale reflected on the permeability and broken structure of the first floor of the block.
THE C-BLOCK
The C-Block is a flexible housing typology that provides five different types of 46m2 and 55m2 living units. Thus, the organization of the units aims for a rich social mix.
The typical living units are organized along the vertical cores, each serving two units per floor. These units extend to most of the C-shape building. On the 5F & 6F the units set back 1.5m creating a terrace for the 5F units. At one side of the block is usually located the corridor type units, a house typology that encourages connections between neighbors and targeted to younger population. The first floor plan is occupied by commercial and community programs, also by living units for the weak in the inner side of the plot to preserve privacy.
