Abstract

Due to various housing development policies, specifically generated from the Commissioner for Urban in Madrid in the early 50s and especially since the addition of the director Julian Laguna in 1954-1958, construction activity recovers to levels years prior to the civil war. Especially in the case of Madrid, the priority was to transform indiscriminate precarious settlements in homes with quality residential hygienist. Young architects, as Saenz de Oiza, L.Cubillo, Romany, M.Fisac, FJCarvajal, among others, who in their proposals will reflect a new culture and a new openness attitude critical experimentation favored by a state regulatory framework for progress. Half a century later, we review its history and recognize its architectural value in its current transformed state. Besides being a typological progress in response to a change in the regulatory requirements of neighborhood organization, the selection of the models presented, provided modern solutions in the composition of facades with extensive and experimental laboratory of details, some of which are represented graphically for the current investigation , for the first time

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