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Walden-7, a small part of a utopia come true, is a housing group, conceived in the late sixties and early seventies, with objectives that today would be included within the improvement of the quality of everyday life or the sustainability of the living environment. In those years before and after the social and cultural movements that culminated in the events of "May '68",
Walden-7 was born after long research and creative work as a proposal for a set of dwellings with a high building density per square metre, an alternative to the housing block, which was the rationalist model for building many dwellings concentrated on a limited piece of land, imposed in all the cities of the world as the only possible solution to the problem of wanting to give maximum buildability to the plots and thus lower the price of social housing.
Walden 7 was conceived as an innovative proposal from many angles, it encouraged a reflection on people's lives as a whole, from the individual and private to the social and interpersonal relationships, from everyday life to aspects of economic growth, from the city in relation to the countryside, from industrial production to craftsmanship, as well as the use and perception of architectural space and the influence of the configuration of physical space on the behaviour of the people who occupy it, and how to deal with the image produced by the built volumes in relation to their environmental surroundings.
Text by: ANNA BOFILL LEVI
