clearly squared social housing

This is the design for the low price dwellings competition of Mantova’s city council housing building program.
The design aims to find a correct shape in order to mmet the energetic advanced efficiency principles required by te competition, as well as keeping a building Cost while having high quality life spaces and ambients,
and responding to the local climate conditions and sun light.
Fitting all of these requirements in such a building lot’s shape was quite hard.
The building is composed of three main volumes, intersecting one another to create “social spaces” in the two intersections: these spaces host a sereis of common function in order to create interaction
between the inhabitants, following the principles of the co-housing.

To be as more passive as possible, it is closed on the North facade with distribution passages and a public space, while it opens on the spouther façade with Windows. Also different materials are used to define
these two different orientations.
At the ground floor a particular attention was put in creating a continuity between public space and the semi-public areas close to the building, with the use of ground green terraces and opening in the building through which public paths run.