Article source: Alfonso Alzugaray

We want to raise the inner lane to the category of “reason” of the project. In order to do this, besides the compositional order decisions, we force the access to the houses through this space, qualifying it and generating in this way activity and relation and justifying in our opinion the design of this street.

Image Courtesy © Cesar San Millán, Alzugaray Estudio

• Architects: Alfonso Alzugaray
• Project: 172 Social Housing Building
• Location: Sarriguren
• Photography: Cesar San Millán, Alzugaray Estudio
• Surface built: 25.450 m2
• Client: VITRA Parque del Arga
• Constructor: Dragados
• Project director: Fernando Rubi
• Quantity surveyor: Pedro Legarreta Nuin
• Eng. Structures: NB 3 5
• Software used: Autocad