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Adrian Jimenez E. Samuel T Lewis Dominika Gozdek Finn McLaughlin Jordan Bizzell Program e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Skylight Hotel facade Proposals are required, which combine a sense of the epic and the everyday, spanning sensitive stealth additions to radical urban scale interventions. Designs should balance empathy for a diverse range of users with an understanding of social, economic and environmental sustainability. One of the pinnacles of human achievement has been the development of cities. The aim of this unit is to explore the urban environment and the potential for designed intervention aimed at reshaping and improving the quality of that environment. - Lavapies became an popular neighbourhood for workers, and quite decadent. - A new generation of lowermiddle class immigrants and artists began to occupy the old abandoned houses to make new apartments Madrid. - A new impulse of life quickly perked up this part of town, turning it into a young centre of nightlife, surely with a very authentic taste of street life. Lavapies. Madrid 116 Roof Garden private Vertical circulation Structure II Roof garden public Buildings blocks Floor levels Structure Ground floor