OPEN BUILDING IN VALENCIA unitarian cases from thesis of Javier Perez Igualada

GENERAL LOCATION GROUPS IN VALENCIA The new neighborhoods were built on the periphery of the Valencia city between 1946 and The following examples are included in the Javier Pérez Igualada thesis: "The open building city. Valencia, "

ISLA PERDIDA GROUP ( )

ISLA PERDIDA GROUP LOCATION Isla Perdida is the common name by which is known the Paseo al Mar group. It is located in the extension of Paseo al Mar street, on the outskirts of the city at that time.

Isla Perdida group. Aerial Photo. 1965

It was designed and built by the team INV in two phases, the first between 1954 and 1959 and the second between 1956 and Each phase is formalized with building a different model, while in the first building is open, the second model is a closed block.

Isla Perdida group. Current view from Paseo al Mar. Isla Perdida is a model building with the Zeilenbau bases and functionalist structure of those moments.

Phase A are 456 apartments on four equidistant linear blocks of nine floors which are arranged orthogonally to the Paseo al Mar whose interstices are dedicated to gardens and parking bags. Phase B are 300 homes located in a model of closed block building with a perimeter shallow, leaving a free space inside which is accessed by passages from the street.

In the linear blocks. the contour is jagged on the east facade, leading to houses with two or three bays. Distribution rotates in the end walls, generating two orthogonal houses to the block. The flats have an area of ​​ about 90 m2. Typical floor of linear block

Today, Isla Perdida group is within the building weft that borders the Paseo al Mar axis. They are low and proportionate blocks with the size of the street and the only with a character unitary. Isla Perdida group. Current views.

Isla Perdida group. Old photo from Ayora garden.