A new neighbourhood

Description

In Orio, in the area that today lies between the town and the motorway passing overhead, a new neighbourhood is proposed: to fill that gap and bring the town closer to the sea. Here, the neighbourhood's main street.

This is work for the Proyectos V course (2024/2025, handed in January 2025). The layout of the neighbourhood was developed as a group, and then each of us worked on one part. I was assigned the neighbourhood's main street.

The street is formed by two snake-shaped buildings. The ground floors are shops and entrance halls; above them, over three storeys, are the homes, divided into five types. Parking sits beneath the buildings and the stair cores carry a lift.

In the street between the two buildings a green space is proposed, playing with different materials and organised on a grid. The street is not just a passage: it is also a place to stay and to meet.

Project decisions

01
Filling a gap
The site is a gap between the town and the motorway passing overhead. The new neighbourhood fills it and brings the town closer to the sea.
02
Planned as a group, each with a part
The layout of the neighbourhood was developed as a group. Each of us then worked on one part; the one shown here is the main street.
03
Two snake-shaped buildings
The street is not straight: it is formed by two long buildings, with bends, side by side. The space left between them is the main street.
04
Ground floors open to the street
The ground floors are shops and entrance halls. The homes start above, over three storeys, and the street stays alive.
05
Five types
The homes come in five types: A and B (100 m²) and C, D and E (77 m²). They adapt to the bends of the buildings, so they are not all the same.
06
A green space in the middle of the street
In the street between the two buildings a green space is proposed, based on a grid and playing with different materials: paving, planting and raised edges.