Housing and office project
Pamplona, Spain
The fourth exercise of the course will address the issue of collective housing from a location of enormous singularity in the contact of the urban fabric of Pamplona with one of its main public spaces: the Vuelta del Castillo.
The entire perimeter of the citadel is dotted with a series of architectural "landmarks" that make up, without a doubt, one of the most representative profiles of the city, and whose arrangement could be understood as a kind of dialogue between its plot and its geometries. so characteristic of the fortress. The new building, in addition to becoming part of this set of "singularities" will complete the urban front made up of residential buildings that currently ends with the Torres de Huarte. This exemplary building, signed by Javier Guibert and Fernando Redón, was one of the first actions of collective housing in what in 1962 was considered the III Ensanche de Pamplona, in the first expansion of the city towards the south of the citadel.
The program includes the construction of 52 homes together with an office space in an area resulting from a slight modification of the PSIS drawn up for the site. The plot is delimited to the west by Esquiroz street, to the south by Sancho el Fuerte Avenue, to the east by the Casa de la Misericordia grounds and to the north by Vuelta del Castillo. The intervention, on a plot of 1055 square meters, foresees a height of PB + 10, although both this height and its alignments indicated in the plan will always be maximum.
