Project Analysis /Örnek Inceleme 1

ITU Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architectural Design 2014-2015 Spring ARCH. DESIGN PROJECT IV Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Alk er Bregger Project analysis /Örnek inceleme 1 Project / Projenin Sections / Kesiter Name/Ad : Mirador Location/Yeri : Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain Architect/Mimar : MVRDV Construction date/Yapm y : 2001-2005 Information Source/Kaynak : http://www.mvrdv.nl/ http://mirador-mvrdv.blogspot.com.tr/

Site Plan / Vaziyet plan Façades / Görünü ler

north elevation west elevation east elevation south elevation Plans / Planlar

ITU Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architectural Design 2014-2015 Spring ARCH. DESIGN PROJECT IV Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Alk er Bregger Project Analysis / Örnek inceleme 2

Conceptual Approach / Context - Environmental Functional spaces / Natural Light / Dogal I Kavramsal Yaklasim Fonksiyonel Mekanlar Relationship / Baglam - light + transparency Cevresel Iliski

The building was designed as a diferent proposal for the area which had similar building typologies so it is contradicting Sanchinarro, suburbs of Madrid is a town other buiding blocks in its nearby envi- which has a lot of new housing to satisfy ronment. the growth of population. The disposition of the buildings in this area was very introverted. There was a central court- yard in a block and the buildings surrounded it. This introverted disposition was conficting with the Spanish culture since it was limiting the social exchange with the neighbors. So MVRDV proposed to solve this housing issue by changing the surface from horizontal to vertical. The high raised terras, the emptiness in the superblock creates a surface for the users to view the landscape on oneside and the city on the other. It also forms a Diferent buildings in this vertical neigh- frame for the Guadarrama Mountains. borhood are color coded in this diagram to show the relationship between them on plans and elevation. living room bedroom wet spaces balcony

ITU Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architectural Design 2014-2015 Spring ARCH. DESIGN PROJECT IV Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Alk er Bregger Project analysis /Örnek inceleme 3

Circulation System / Construction System and Users’ Profile / Other / Diger Sirkülasyon (dola m) Material Profili El Mirador is a very good example of Sistemi / Ta istem ve Malzeme Mirador is a social housing project how simple ideas can result in a very

disposition of diferent parts issued by the municipality of Madrid. unique design. The concept behind

MVRDV is hired by the municipality to it is as simple as taking a usual block address the housing issue in Madrid in the area and rotating it 90 degrees caused by the boom of migration to create one superblock which after the opening of the european allows more surface to be used for borders. In this situation MVRDV other purposes on the ground foor focused on integrating people with as well as creating a raised public diferent lifestyles into this “superblo- space framing the landscape. It ck” since the other examples of social proposes a new solution for a very housing in Spain has a wide range of architecturally infertile environment. users and they constantly change It is also addressing the housing for inhabitants. So in this project they low-income families issue. vertical+horizontal circulation designed diferent “buildings” in this vertical superblock according to their However even though the building is praised by the architecture critics, need. It is meant to accomodate a variety of people from students to the tenants of El Mirador claim that single professionals, small families the architects were not as concerned and larger families. MVRDV relied on in the social agenda of the building as much as they were with the aest- their design of the circulation of the superblock and the high teras to hetics of the building. create diferent surfaces of interaction for all the users. The circulation or “vertical streets” -as they call them- provide a fuid volume of interaction within the fragments of the superblo- The circulation of the building is ck as well as connecting each of designed as the streets of this vertical them. urban fragment.