After the release of a prototype and the exhibition in La Biennale di Venezia based on a prefabricated concrete ring, SUMMARY used this system at the VDC project.

Assuming the immediacy, flexibility and resources optimisation as core themes. 

The strategy was clear: a ground floor level for the multi-services program connected with the public space, crowned by the individual habitational units

Six 45m2 cabins.

Due to the differences between these two programs, SUMMARY created an independent access for each function, placing them in different levels.

Thus, they take advantage of the natural slope of the ground.

The ground floor is shaped by prefabricated slabs and structural panels in the external perimeter. This area was conceived in a very flexible way: it’s possible to add or remove compartments or let the whole floor functioning as a big open space.

Thus, the users may adapt the space according to their needs.

The first floor is all composed by Gomos System units. Considering that the maximum building area permitted by law was quite small, the requested empty space was used to separate the housing units.

Designed and licensed as a collective housing building, with this feature this project offers the main advantages of single houses: clearly individualised entrances and a complete acoustic separation between the different units.

In the whole building, the structural material -precast concrete- is directly exposed, without any additional finishing, thus reducing the resources, the manpower and the arts involved in the construction process.

And, consequently, reducing its environmental impact.

This approach has a direct effect in the acceleration of the building process: all its components are fully prepared in a factory and quickly assembled in situ.

Performing at once as structure, insulation and cladding elements