EXECUTION UNIT

Architect collaborates with an international construction festival to create an economical prototype of minimal housing units with the ability to consolidate and generate collective residential nuclei with easy set-up and evolving assembly.  Linked to the alarm of an agency lacking an urgently needed new housing plan, the project employs a misappropriated media campaign to prove that the units can function independently on a plot of Barcelona public land under private management. In doing so this sort of housing comes to be demanded by and offers alternatives to sectors of the population with limited financial resources and/or willing to rent property without any hope of ever owning it. Renters have the option of actively participating in the physical assembly of the prototype with the double intention of lowering expenditures as well as personalising and dignifying their own housing.  Materials include:  collapsible steel structure, double-T wooden joints, sandwich panel (water-repellent board - polyester - OSB), auxiliary steel structures, aluminium frames, sandwich panel (steel - polyurethane - steel), plasticized PVC steel sheet; PVC cases; cellular polycarbonate, glass and sandwich plate (aluminium - polyethylene - aluminium); as well as co-ordination by friends, family members or collaborators to facilitate the prototype's assembly in a reduced period of time with the necessary machinery and auxiliary materials.

Subjects > architect invited by Construmat and the APTM.

Collaborators > the thirty people who assembled the Chicken on the side of Wad Ras, Joseph Bohigas (organiser of the "APTM - Apartment"), Javier Planas (organiser of the em3) and Martí Peran (organiser of "Office Space").

Materials > collapsible steel structure, double-T wooden joints sandwich panel (water-repellent board - polyester - OSB), auxiliary steel structures, aluminium frames, sandwich panel (steel - polyurethane - steel), plasticized PVC steel sheet; PVC cases; cellular polycarbonate, glass and sandwich plate (aluminium - polyethylene - aluminium).

Description > stackable housing module for the temporary occupation of plots of land.

Approximate surface area > 32 m2 plus 14 m2 work space.