Starting from “Space Syntax” as a method and “Torre Valentina” as a model, “HouSyntax Girasol” is a Project strategy that really follow the main and first idea of J.A. Coderch, the architect of Girasol building: bring the country house to town; to the city building block.
In order to objectively know the parameters that characterise the house in the country and to verify its reflection in the Girasol dwellings, the "Space Syntax" method is used, a spatial theory developed by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson in their book "The Social Logic of Space", which explains the different spatial configurations associated with each lifestyle.
Syntax as a term and as a linguistic discipline is fundamental to understanding the "space syntax" analysis system and the subsequent project strategy. This discipline studies the order and relationship of the elements that make up prayer. This is how we have analysed the model of Torre Valentina and Girasol; from the housing unit as a proposal that is related to others through different links, to a higher level of concreteness in which the proposals become each of the rooms that make up the dwelling.
Stripping us of any hint of modesty as a result of mistakenly believing that we are altering the originality or authenticity of a monument of Madrid's modernity, the project's strategy could be summarised in the following steps:
1. Submission to the 'rural housing' model under the parameters defined in the 'Space Syntax' theory.
2. Subject to the 'rural environment' model under the parameters 'building density' and 'economic activity'.
3. Final adjustment, which resolves the structure of the building after its alteration, with the surviving slabs, the new lightened unidirectional slabs and the transferable mobile modules being constructively differentiated.