Collective housing in transformation. The endowment model

In “Collective housing in transformation. The endowment model” we will address the emergence of a new housing model within collective housing: endowment housing.

Almost twenty years after their consecration as a housing solution by the 2006 Euskadi land law, endowed housing has carved out a place for itself in the Basque landscape.

These single-space apartments, or one- and at most two-room apartments with a maximum rental period of 5 years, have become one of the most flexible and ductile typologies available for the development of public rental policies.

In “Collective Housing in transformation. The endowment model” we will have the presence of architects who have studied this phenomenon with a critical view or who have a long career in the construction of this type of housing:

Itziar Molinero Miranda and Jaime Gutiérrez, authors of the study “2018-2023 Public Dwelling in Basque Country. post-occupation study. Critical analysis of the endowed housing. Zuzkidura-bizitokien azterketa kritikoa”.

Atxu Amann y Alcocer collaborator in the publication “2018-2023 Public Dwelling in Basque Country. post-occupation study”, founder of Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectos studio and lecturer at ETSAM.

Mariona Benedito Ribelles, founder of Estudi d’Arquitectura MIM-A and professor at the IE School of Architecture and Design and at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Moderators: María Esnaola and Elixabete Beraza

 

About “2018-2023 Public Dwelling in Basque Country. post-occupation study. Critical analysis of endowed accommodation. Zuzkidura-bizitokien azterketa kritikoa”:

This research starts from a graphic analysis of all the accommodations built until 2023, with emphasis on those carried out during the years 2018-2023.

In the first part, a series of diagrams allows us to classify the buildings according to their location, typology, orientation, volume, distribution and organization of interior spaces.

The second part develops each project in detailed cards, complemented by a brief text and visual material. In addition, for some of the buildings constructed in the period mentioned above, a photographic report has been carried out to document their current use. In total, five cases of users in the three Basque provinces have been studied, each one in a different type of housing.

The study concludes with texts by four authors who approach the research from different perspectives: that of the architect of the building, that of the facilities, that of the urban implantation and that of the interior.

About AMA: AMA is an architectural firm formed by Itziar Molinero Miranda and Jaime Gutiérrez Armendariz based in the Basque Country. Graduated in ETSA UPV-EHU and with a Master’s degree in ETSAV, their interest lies in combining architectural practice with research, diluting the differences between both parts and understanding architecture as a transversal and interdisciplinary exercise capable of providing formal solutions to everyday problems.

About Atxu Amann y Alocer: Atxu Amann y Alcocer holds a PhD in Architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), Urban Planning Technician from the Centro de Estudios Urbanos del I.E.A.L. (MAP) and a scholarship from the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) Founder since 1987, together with Andrés Cánovas Alcaraz and Nicolás Maruri Mendoza of the architecture studio Temperaturas Extremas Arquitectxs. In his career they have won more than a hundred awards and recognitions for a work obtained mostly in architectural competitions that have been published in national and international magazines and exhibited in several countries (amanncanovasmaruri.blogspot.es). She was awarded the National Architecture Prize in 2012.

Linked to communication, she has been director for 20 years of the Magazine of the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain and Commissioner of the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 with the proposal becoming. For thirty years she has combined her professional work with teaching and research in different national and international centers and universities. She is currently a full professor at the ETSAM of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), where she coordinates the Research and Educational Innovation Groups Hypermedia, architectural configuration and communication workshop.

About Mariona Benedito Ribelles: Architect graduated from ETSAB-UPC in 2000, with a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Housing of the 40s and 60s in Barcelona. She is Associate Professor of Architectural Projects at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia since 2003. Her research study has been recognized as a finalist for the Pedagogies Award at the XIII BIAU. She is Associate Professor and Coordinator at IE School of Architecture and Design. She has taught and led workshops at institutions such as ETSALS URL, ETH-Zurich, UPC Foundation, BAU School of Design, Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in Saint Louis, ESARQ-UIC and ETSAB-UPC.
Co-founder of the architecture studio MIM-A in 2000, she has been working in her own solo practice since 2020. Her work has been awarded relevant prizes such as the ARQUIN-FAD 2020 Award, New European Bauhaus Mention, Catalunya Construcció Award, ARQUIN-FAD Award 2015, finalist in the XV BEAU and EU Mies van der Rohe Award, and selected for the 7th European Biennial of Landscape. Mariona has curated and designed exhibitions such as Arquitectura, Universitat i Territori at COAC (2000), Emergencias at COAC (2000), Máquina Climática (2025) at the Parque de la Ciudadela greenhouse in Barcelona and the EPISODE lecture series (2020-2024) at ETSAV-UPC.