The extreme relationship with the intense traffic of the national highway that links Huelva with the Portuguese border is the main characteristic of this site located in the Barriada Reina Sofia in the town of Cartaya, Huelva.

The urban fabric, distorted in its encounter with the road, is mainly made up of groups of low-density multi-family housing blocks forming complete blocks, in which the few existing public spaces are resolved in the voids present in this fabric. The orography of the terrain and the strong division caused by the layout of the national highway and the railroad make the physical connection between the two margins difficult, practically reducing it to a visual relationship.

In response to this context, it was proposed to intervene by concentrating the built spaces in order to reserve a common open space for all the dwellings. This also allowed to facilitate better access to natural light and to orient the main accesses to it.

In this way a compact complex appears, where the series of houses that occupies the largest side concentrates, oriented to the north, the service corridor and routes cushioning the impact of noise from the road. This barrier effect is diluted in the interior with the opening of the terraces and openings, which from the first level recover the magnificent view of the countryside and allow the evening light to illuminate the whole complex. This effort to compact its presence in the environment led to complete and close the proposal with two houses that are "detached" from the complex to gain a more compact, homogeneous and open to the outside public area.

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