Architectural project for Trabensol Senior Center
The architectural project of the Trabensol Center is the built manifestation of the way of life decided by the cooperative members. With the experience of the project and the construction of the Center as departure point, Equipo Bloque starts the initiative eCOHOUSING for the development of the collaborative housing
OUTLINE OF THE PROJECT
The members of the Trabensol cooperative confronted the architects of Equipo Bloque with an important challenge: how to give architectural form to the way of life that they were thinking of. This vital project, distant from contemporary standards, gives priority to the common program. This case was not about gathering conventional dwellings around common services, but rather creating a formal, functional and energy organism with a perfect equilibrium between the common and the private.
Trabensol Cooperative demanded a perfect balance between common and private. Equipo Bloque Arquitectos addressed this issue through levels of communal living-privacy
LIKS TO MORE INFORMACION ABOUT COOPERATIVE TRABENSOL PROJECT
Common spaces in Trabensol Senior Centre
Levels of communal living – privacy in Trabensol Senior Centre
Life in Trabensol Senior Centre
Cohousing Project. Trabensol Centre Inner and outer spaces
Bioclimatic architecture in Trabensol Centre (I)
Designing a cohousing form of life: from the initial plan to Trabensol Centre finished building
News and publications
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First the person, then the house
15% of the world’s population, 8,5% in Spain, has some kind of disability. A different form of house planning, designing and building is necessary -
Social and economic viability of cohousing (I)
Reflections on the place of the cohousing model in an individualistic society, from the social, economic and consumption aspects -
Collaborative form of life
A collaborative economy and form of life is possible. Sharing, exchanging, lending, giving, renting, buying... at a local and global scale -
What does a cohousing look like (I)
The type of building, common spaces and main free spaces must be decided at the beginning of a new construction cohousing project -
What is cohousing (I)
It is a type of joint community by its way of understanding life. Planned by its residents, it is formed by private homes and a major part of common services -
Assignment of use | Alternative access to housing
Assignment of use is an alternative to owning or renting property. It is one of the characteristic models of cohousing in Spain -
Cohousing project. Trabensol Centre inner and outer spaces
Easy communication of ideas among participants in a cohousing project is essential. Perspectives and scale models are some of the tools used -
TrabensoI Centre bioclimatic architecture (I)
Trabensol Centre for the Elderly is strict bioclimatic architecture, based on a profound study of climatic, geological, topographic and urban conditions -
Levels of communal living-privacy in Trabensol Centre
Trabensol Cooperative demanded a perfect balance between common and private. Equipo Bloque Arquitectos addressed this issue through levels of communal living-privacy -
Designing a cohousing form of life: from the initial plan to Trabensol Centre finished building
Trabensol Cooperative challenged Equipo Bloque Arquitectos: to transform cohousing form of life into an architecture project