P and I are our clients, a couple who owned a house with a piece of land at this district promoted by Obra Sindical del Hogar (OSH), inaugurated in 1946 and located in the southwest of the city of Burgos.

© Javier Bravo Jabato

Architects: Gaztelu Jerez Arquitectos

Location: Burgos, Spain

Author: Enrique Jerez Abajo

Associate Architect: Jesús Alonso Ruiz

Collaborators Architects: Koldo Fernandez Gaztelu, Catarina Isabel Faustino Mota

Area: 200.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Javier Bravo Jabato

Rigger: Iván Poncelas Ramón

Construction: Construcciones Gesdesbur SL, Burgos

Construction Manager: María Paz de Quevedo
Structure: Prodabis Ingeniería de Estructuras (David Manso)

© Javier Bravo Jabato

P and I are our clients, a couple who owned a house with a piece of land at this district promoted by Obra Sindical del Hogar (OSH), inaugurated in 1946 and located in the southwest of the city of Burgos.

© Javier Bravo Jabato

The original houses are modest, rational, have a simple construction and are based on what could be considered as a vernacular or popular architecture. Unfortunately, nowadays the district is very deteriorated, given that many new houses have been built without any link nor sensitivity to the pre-existence. So, sometimes, the district is unrecognizable.

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