TEAM:

Manuel Gausa Navarro, main partner

Flo Raveaux, main Partner

Roberto Ferlito  partner

Alessandra Faticanti partner

Vicky Lents, coordinator at site

Kazuyo Nishida, chief architect

Assigned Typology:    Residential

Client:                         Private

Project phase:            BUILT

Date:                           2021

Pixel social housing, Social housing, Barcelona

Theme: #camouflaje #impermanence #diversity #housing #social #sustainability

Urban Camouflage

This social housing project proposes a new form of dialogue between architecture and its surrounding, using a strategy of urban camouflage that respects and integrates the natural environment as much as possible. The building minimizes its visual impact, adopting a language that blends with the landscape without altering its essence. The distinctive element of the project is its pixelated façade, a visual abstraction of the surrounding vegetation. Through a play of patterns, colors and textures, the building envelope generates a fragmented perception that adapts to the environment, blurring the boundaries. This solution not only responds to aesthetic criteria, but also seeks a sense of continuity and harmony with the landscape. Through urban camouflage, the architecture becomes a more respectful expression of the landscape, balancing the impact in the city. The building is energetically self-sufficient powered by a solar photovoltaic plant on the roof.

The metal material of the cladding panels it will maintenance with natural product in order to let them evolve and age alongside with nature giving an impermanence look to the building.