Project by Nadeysh Ojasmar @nadeyshh + Eugenia lopez + Eiwa Colburn @eiwacolburn
This project reimagines co-living housing within Lot 2 of Madrid’s Bosque Metropolitano, near Laguna Ambroz, a former extraction site where biodiversity returned after mining ceased. Rather than treating housing and ecology as opposing forces, the proposal uses excavation as a regenerative act: earth removed from the site becomes rammed earth walls and clay facades, while the resulting voids become lagoons, swamps, and floodable forests. The massing responds to Madrid’s urban block, using a dense grid to organize tower clusters and residential units, but breaks that grid across the site to allow water, plants, birds, butterflies, and other species to move through. Shared domestic cores contain kitchens, dining rooms, interior gardens, living rooms, and co-work spaces, with units ranging from studios to six-bedroom configurations. Ground-floor water ecology programs, floating wetlands, and bird coronations transform the building into an architecture of reciprocal habitation between humans, soil, water, plants, and non-human life alike.
