In this course we have been proposed to develop a housing tower in the AZCA superblock.
Due to the scarce access to the interior of the superblock, there is a poor relationship between the superblock and the city.
It is proposed to create an axis that connects the streets of Orense, Agustín de Betancourt, the park of the AZCA square and the Paseo de la Castellana, achieving an integration of the block in the city. An axis free of physical barriers, allowing the passability of pedestrians through a large access created by the implementation of the project.
After analyzing the projects ¨Vertical City¨ in Paris, and ¨Souk Mirage¨ in the Middle East, both by Sou Fujimoto, the conception of the tower is proposed as a construction of massive dimensions wrapped in a visual lightness.
Just as in the game "Scrabble" its tiles form words, in this project, the modules generate the tower. A tower that connects, that gives rise to a relationship of coexistence, that allows the common, that facilitates ... Scrabble is synonymous with society, a society that allows people to form words; houses, communities; stalls, markets ...
Inspired by the villa building that le Corbusier designed for his ideal city, various residential modules are proposed that combine interior and exterior spaces and double heights, generating dynamic, versatile residential units that adapt to the new needs after the pandemic, thanks to a game of repetition, inversion and stacking.
It consists of a residence for the elderly, a student residence, housing of various types, a hotel, a restaurant, a market, a sports center and a parking lot.
Scrabble is a response to the current search to return to the community, to connect between people, streets, neighborhoods... It is the materialization of the embrace that we need more than ever in the post-pandemic society.