Residence hall for the university in Seville

The project is located in a new urban development area in the east of Seville, bounded on two of its four borders by green spaces. The program comprises 32 affordable housing units and a common services area for its users. The primary challenge of the proposal lies in resolving the perimeter security requirements demanded for the complex through a continuous element that acts as a formal discourse to structure the entire architectural layout.

The spatial layout is organized into parallel strips that distribute the different programmatic uses: parking, common services, recreation area, and housing. The perimeter is defined by a wall whose folds configure the access to the plot and whose controlled openings formalize the visual connection with the adjacent parklands. The central common services strip is developed on a single level and is enclosed by glass panes facing the recreation area and colored panels facing the parking lot, while the three-story residential volume is shifted to one edge to connect visually with the larger-scale park.

The housing block faces south to optimize natural lighting, utilizing cantilevers and sliding micro-perforated fabric panels as passive measures to control solar radiation and minimize energy consumption. Access is resolved through outdoor galleries linked to a single centered vertical circulation core, which optimizes transit and complies with the evacuation paths required by fire regulations. The interior layout employs a single, efficient typology based on versatile rooms that allow multiple furniture arrangements, and whose transition toward the access galleries encourages interaction among neighbors.