La calle sube al edificioVivienda en galería en Madrid, 1949-1956
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Universidad de Navarra
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- J. Calatrava (coord.)
Publisher: Abada
ISBN: 978-84-17301-24-8
Year of publication: 2019
Pages: 897-907
Congress: Congreso Internacional Cultura y Ciudad (2. 2019. Granada)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
In 1939 we had in Spain a big necessity of dwellings. There were two main reasons for this; during the Civil War a big amount of houses were completely destroyed and the population had migrated from the country to the city looking for better life conditions. Some social groups tried to provide housing to the homeless. They sought help from some architects, that a few years later were the most prominent architects. They put their talents at the service of social housing, and they designed buildings that are still studied nowadays because of their quality on design and urban and human vision. In this research we have studied a particular case that is very common in the dwellings of those years, the balcony housing. In this type of buildings, the street rises to the building to provide access to the different dwellings. It enables a closer relationship between the inhabitants.