In this exercice, students were asked to design thirty apartments in a non specific site. Thus, this
being the first approach to collective housing, there were two main problems, how to relate both public and private spheres, whilst choosing a specific type of access to the apartments.
The answer was a four-storey building, composed of Studios, Two-bedroom, Three-bedroom and
Five-bedroom apartments. The first three apartments combined in a single module and with its own
access are replicated in a “U” shape building. Its corners are the exception with the largest apartments.
Both the Two-bedroom and the Three-bedroom apartments are divided in two floors, being the common rooms in the lower level and the private in the upper level.
The whole building is a simple metal structure. Glass panels cover both fronts of the housing
complex allowing a great amount of natural light inside the different rooms. Moreover, the common
rooms, such as kitchens and living rooms are visually opened to the private garden inside the complex.