Stability is not ownership. Architecture is not enclosure. Cities are not only for humans. In Salamanca, a former Francoist office tower is transformed—from 60 to 90 meters—not to dominate, but to invite: light, air, birds, and people. Slabs are removed, walls demolished, and the structural frame is left open to sky and passage. Façades are punctured, and rooms connect without corridors. No single entrance defines the building; vegetation grows in from every side, merging with an urban forest designed for both humans and migratory birds. Each housing unit is shaped by the intimacy between humans and birds. The unit unfolds in three parts: a community balcony for social gathering; a backyard where the bathroom—its most private function—is placed within a natural setting, offering the feeling of bathing in a forest; and an open-plan interior that allows residents to define their own space. A cantilevered volume extends from the second floor to break the divide between indoors and outdoors, redefining what luxury means for a new generation—light, air, and connection. This is no longer a relic of modernism. It is a monument to coexistence, to looseness, to shared life. Not designed to contain, but to connect. Not built to isolate, but to entangle. A housing proposal that resists enclosure and embraces the porous, the shared, the wild.
