Article source: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos S.L.P.

2008 World Architecture Festival (WAF 2008). Finalist Housing category.

2008 2008 Manuel Oraá Regional Architecture Award of Canary Islands. Winner  in the New Construction Housing.

The inscribed houses, with their small boundaries, are thought and built as a microcosm. The term inscribed, borrowed from geometry, induced us to find new qualities. The confinements of the irregular and broken limits of party walls, far from being perceived as a negative quality, heightened forms and bodies to us.

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• Architects: Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos S.L.P. (Pedro Romera García, Ángela Ruiz Martínez)
• Project: EIGHT INSCRIBED HOUSES AND THREE COURTYARDS
• Location: Vecindario, Gran Canaria
• Developper: Instituto Canario de la Vivienda. Gobierno de Canarias
• Collaborators (all architects): Jorge Hernández, Laura Gómez Mariño y María Rodríguez Arcas.
• Situation: Calle Miramar
• Technical architect: Manuel Hernandez Vera
• Project year: October 2004
• Built in the year: December 2007
• Building company: Construcciones Rodríguez Luján S.L.
• Building cost: 524.151,68 €
• Cost per square meter: 584 €/m²
• Area: 897,52m²

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