Zaragoza continues to advance towards a new way of building public housing: cheaper, fast, sustainable and adapted to current social needs. The City Council is scheduled Levar a new building with 34 affordable rental homes in the district of Torrero, between Avenida América and the Plaza de la MEMORIA Historical. This will be Built with an industrialized systemsimilar to fitting Lego pieces.
These homes will be destined for people and families in vulnerability And they will be distributed in a rectangular base block of four heights – he lowers more three – on a municipal plot of 1,000 square meters. The estimated budget is around 5 million euros and, if the planned deadlines are met, the building could be completed in A period of between two and a half years and three years.
The construction will be innovative: Parts of the building will be previously manufactured and then assembled in the field, which will shorten the work times. It is similar to mounting the pieces of a lego. This technique, increasingly used in public projects, seeks to reduce costs, minimize risks in the process and facilitate access to European funds linked to sustainability and innovation.
Common spaces for the entire neighborhood
The building will house 34 floors of one or two bedrooms, with surfaces between 44 and 61 square meters. They are designed to adjust to the so -called ‘life cycle’, with typologies that They adapt to both older people and young people or small familiesthe most frequent profiles according to the latest population and housing census.
The project also incorporates a community dimension. They will be enabled Common spaces such as multipurpose classrooms, areas for physical or artistic activitiesRooms for meetings or workshops, and areas of study focused on digital literacy. All this, not only at the service of residents, but also open to the neighborhood environment, with the aim of strengthening coexistence and social cohesion in the area.
Based on a model
Torrero’s project Follow the Ricardo Millán building model in Las Fuenteslocated on the street of Fray Luis Urbano and inaugurated in 2022 with 80 homes managed by Zaragoza Housing. In its case, the El Tram Foundation seeks people over 65 owners with the need to change their floor to a more adapted one: They enter the property in exchange for giving their home to the municipal program of affordable rent.
Of the 80 homes, some 26 are allocated to stays of vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, refugees and women with children). All floors were designed with one and two bedrooms. In each plant, they are reserved Multipurpose spaces for use by residents: Ludoteca, computer classrooms or artistic activities.
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