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The project ” Social Housing ”  is located on the north limit of the old town of Pamplona, at the end of the plateau where it is placed, next to Ronda Promenade, the limit of the medieval walled area.

This project has been promoted by the public administration, in order to revitalize the most degraded zone of the old town within the municipal housing plan.
Photography: Pedro Pegenaute
The project was included in a high-interest urban plan. The new building, which takes up the demolition of an existing one, had to complete the preexisting block and to face a new urban space, a new generation square on the medieval wall. Due to the difficult economic situation, this urban development was postponed, incorporating into the project the definition of a passageway of semi-private nature which allowed the viability of the initiative.
The program consisted basically of apartments to be used as rehousing, which specific detail of the program was unknown at the time of the competition. Exclusively was known that six apartments had to be built; for six rehousing of six families and hence with six different programs, in addition of different trade premises on the ground floor, to promote the commercial activity of the zone and the restoration of a medieval cavern located in the basement of the old building.
Photography: Pedro Pegenaute
Besides the initial uncertainty of the program, the design of the competition...