Arcadia | Manuel Cambranis Vaught

"Name of a country where happiness, simplicity and peace reign in an idyllic environment inhabited by a population that lives in communion with nature”.

Arcadia is a private multi housing development designed to create a community where 72 housing units are grouped around common areas that are in direct contact with nature in which the inhabitants are encouraged to meet each other and generate experiences in a safe environment with an added value.

The first stage consists of 21 apartments and 15 townhouses.

The design initiate from the pursuit to integrate the shared green areas to all the houses, maintaining north / south orientation that adapt to the climatic conditions of the site and provide comfort to its users.

The architecture is based on open spaces that create spatial quality connecting views to the parks from where they receive natural lighting and ventilation. The transition from the intimate and private to the social and public is achieved through landscape elements.

Home Club and central park
At the heart of the project is the central park, a large wooded space with coexisting areas to which the home club building is integrated, extending the program of uses of the park with leisure, work, fitness and relaxing areas.

Townhouses
The townhouse model is a home conceptualized to be a comfortable, flexible and versatile family space. The architectural program is distributed in 2 levels with 2 or 3 bedrooms. The distribution allows all the main spaces to have views to the parks.

Apartments
The apartments are integrated into 4 storey vertical blocks generating different typologies with units from one bedroom and roof garden to apartments with a garden terrace. In all cases, the spaces are optimized to provide spatial comfort and generous dynamic areas.

The structural and constructive logic is based in parallel load-bearing walls that also have the function of dividing the different units. A sober palette of materials that seek to highlight the green areas which gives a contemporary style to the set.