The intervention in two very different contexts such as the landscape of La Lancha and the Miraflores Peninsula has been approached from a common strategy: the human scale.

The minimum housing of reference that Atelier Bow-Wow proposed for Ishinomaki introduces a series of spatial configurations that start from the structural module and from the minimum measure close to the proportions of the human being. From there on and adapting to the climatic and territorial preexistences, the dispersed hotel in Jandula dam blurs the military grid of the stone wall units of the village and brings a contemporary perspective to the double falldown roofs. The cells in inverted U, which seek sunlight, and their interstitial spaces form transition areas between interior and exterior, extending and contracting the rhythms of the roof structure, and merge with the landscape of the rural environment on the rim of the Jandula dam.

This same space cell is the one that links with the second collective housing project in the Miraflores Peninsula and the reference of “Manzana Verde” by Langarita Navarro. The minimum bay, of dimensions similar to those of the rural environment, found in the empty and damaged parcels of the cartography shown below, is extended horizontally and vertically, forming the sequence of proposed housing units. These spaces of transition between exterior and interior, both collective and private, are those that, with vegetal jalousies and adjustable facades, adapt to the irregularities of the urban space following the city of Cordoba layout. The transformation of urban space, almost as a surgical strategy, is traced in a linear way, with twists, deviations, inflections and openings that make up new public spaces, connecting the preexisting and generating new green lungs under the thermoregulable singularities of the Arabic gardens.

To conclude, taking into account the urban scale, the project achieves regeneration of the now almost abandoned Miraflores Peninsula, settled on the other side of the Guadalquivir, and connection with the Jandula dam.