(Synanthro)Love Shack, (Tele)Working Abode

Energy and sustainability, Formats, Husos Architects, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Topics

Alternative Domesticity, Architecture&nature, Biodiversity, Building construction, Ecosystem ecology, Energy saving, Inclusion, Local materials, Madrid, Optimized living, Outdoor space, Prefabrication, Project, Spain, Timber

This project is located in a housing development in the Western Sierra of Madrid. Set within a pine forest, next to an SPA (Special Protection Area) for birds, it forms part of a biodiversity-rich area that is currently under threat. The project consists of a sociobioclimatic, multifunctional cabin for a migrant couple and their extended family, as well as other, small animal architectures based around one insect that has become a defining agent in this ecosystem: the pine processionary moth. Together these make up a micro-landscaping and architecture project for humans and other animal species in which alternative ways of inhabiting the place are explored from a care perspective.