High Density Residential Building by Solano & Catalán

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One of the most immediate impact of the housing boom experienced in Spain between 2,000 and 2,007 was the departure abroad of some major companies. Driven by different factors (specialization accredited exhaustion of domestic demand, soaring costs of soils that were purchased within the country, trained experience in the construction and sale of such assets, among others), and knowledgeable housing needs in certain geographies, in particular the countries of Eastern Europe, the early years of the century witnessed a unique landing of the Spanish property industry abroad.

With the global crisis and subsequent collapse after the business, much of this colonial adventure, in many circumstances, simply speculative-vanished abruptly. But his side were other interventions, rooted in the different national realities and designed with professionalism that took shape with unusual force, to the point that it references innovative, both for its positive response in the internal market by contributing to policy undertook parallel accommodation in local governments. It is for this promotion Hercesa Spanish company develops in stages in a popular district of Bucharest high density.

This is a great compact residential activity on the land occupied by a former bread factory, pasta and bakery products. The new plant, the Titan production plant, which during the communist era had been the amalgamation of a populous settlement of social housing, once privatized moved to a more appropriate location for the development of its activities within the scope of a new sector industrial located on the outskirts of the capital. Meanwhile, the new planning reclassified its land for residential and buildability rose with remarkable intensity and density.

Therefore, the main task, beyond rationally organize the void left by the factory amounted to as retrofitting, in providing the high quality set of urban and prevent the impact of an intervention in which increased significantly the parameters of volume and number of dwellings built will damage the existing fabric. This led us to divide the lot into three blocks, with a sort of parallel blocks, so that the separations between these spaces generate pedestrian walk, games and access.

Was designed, in turn, block the typological model consisting of three equal bodies square with the ends of twelve plants, the maximum height permitted by the bylaws, and the central six. Finally, the composition of the facades used as expressive elements of the diversity of treatment according to the different orientations, the chromatic tones of the exterior walls, the volumes flown of the terraces, which alternate in consecutive plants, and textures of the coatings.