The housing for the elderly in Adeamayor de San Martin (Valladolid) can not be understood without its context. Located on the border of a saline hidden wetland (Salgüeros de Aldeamayor) the aridity of the terrain and the infinite horizontality of the Spanish agricultural esplanade - dotted with small masses of pine trees - dominates the landscape, conditioning the implementation of any structure or artifact. In turn, our approaches were held by insistent ideas: provide our elderly with kind environment which promote to be in touch with nature, with the sun, but also enhancing the close relation between inhabitants of the building; the neighborly relations among chairs in the front door of the houses that are so recognizable in the rural areas of Castilla y León.
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Architects: Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez

Location: Valladolid, Spain

Area: 2000.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso / Pedro Iván Ramos Martín

Technical Architect: Javier Palomero Alonso

Collaborators: Bárbara Arranz González, Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso, Dorota Tokarska

© Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso / Pedro Iván Ramos Martín

The housing for the elderly in Adeamayor de San Martin (Valladolid) can not be understood without its context. Located ...