A bioclimatic office and emergency housing, designed to respond quickly to natural disasters.
Overview
Veïnat combines a bioclimatic office with emergency housing, as a direct response to the need for fast, dignified shelter after events like Valencia's DANA flooding. Modular, bioclimatic architecture in service of a real emergency.
This project's full technical file (engineering calculations, drawings, complete materials breakdown) is pending official verification before publication.
Why it exists
After events like Valencia's 2024 DANA flooding, thousands of people were immediately left without dignified shelter. Azalea is developing modular architecture capable of rapid deployment, built on bioclimatic and sustainability principles, conceived as a real response to a climate emergency that has already happened — not an academic exercise.
Project status
Starts: Construction start
Deployment in Chiva
According to Azalea's own team, Veïnat is intended to be deployed as an auxiliary health centre for the municipality of Chiva. A real project for a new auxiliary health centre in Calicanto (Chiva) does exist, driven by Chiva's municipal government and Hospital de Manises, that would serve Calicanto and nearby urbanizations (Sierra Perenchiza, El Bosque, La Loma) — confirmed by independent regional press. That press coverage, however, never mentions Azalea or UPV: Veïnat's specific link to this centre is, for now, the team's own account, not a fact confirmed by independent municipal or health-service sources. This page will be updated once that public confirmation exists.
The dual-use concept
Veïnat combines two uses in a single modular architecture: a bioclimatic office in ordinary use, and emergency housing when the situation requires it. This adaptability is the core of the project — building once to serve two real needs, so the infrastructure never sits idle waiting for an emergency, but instead serves a continuous public function.
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How Veïnat works
Explore each building system — composition, structure, water, climate control and energy — over the project's real plan.
System composition
Veïnat is composed of one rehabilitated shipping container, serving as the services core, and four habitation/coliving modules, with an accessible ramp to ease assembly and access. Per the team's basic structural plan (February 2026), the assembly occupies a footprint of approximately 15.00 × 10.45 m.
Drawings
The team's own basic structural plan, in its original form — click to enlarge.
Basic structural plan — AZALEA UPV VEÏNAT
01 · Escala 1:50 · Febrero 2026
Execution plan
The team's official 23-activity execution plan, grouped into three phases — workshop, Chiva foundations, and rapid assembly. Expand each phase for the detail. States are computed from calendar dates, not a real construction-progress percentage.
Off-site · UpcomingPhase I — Workshop (off-site)
Phase I — Workshop (off-site)
This phase's goal is to leave the module in the most advanced state possible before transport, maximizing off-site prefabrication. Technical training delivered by brands and sponsors is scheduled right before critical interventions like coatings or systems integration — a real technical-transfer mechanism, not just sponsorship visibility.
- May 2025
1.1Diagnosis and remediation of pathologies
Done - 7 Sept 2026 – 10 Sept 2026
1.2Container painting
- 14 Sept 2026 – 17 Sept 2026
1.3Removal of existing flooring
- 21 Sept 2026 – 23 Sept 2026
1.4Cleaning and priming of beams
- 24 Sept 2026 – 30 Sept 2026
1.5Installation of new flooring
- 30 Sept 2026 – 1 Oct 2026
1.6Setting-out of windows, openings and installations
- 2 Oct 2026 – 5 Oct 2026
1.7Training + integration of technical networks, partitions and finishes
- 9 Nov 2026 – 12 Nov 2026
1.8Quality control prior to transport
On-site (Chiva) · UpcomingPhase II — Chiva foundations
Phase II — Chiva foundations
This phase takes place in Chiva. Material execution of the excavation and foundations is delegated to an external contractor under municipal oversight — Azalea's role is administrative coordination, institutional accompaniment and punctual technical supervision, not direct execution with a permanent on-site workforce.
- 15 Jan 2027
2.1Excavation — coordination and start supervision
- 22 Jan 2027
2.2Footings and earthing — on-site technical coordination
- 5 Feb 2027
2.3Septic tank — installation / regulatory supervision
- 19 Feb 2027
2.4Connection of footings to structural beams
On-site (Chiva) · UpcomingPhase III — Rapid assembly, envelope & commissioning
Phase III — Rapid assembly, envelope & commissioning
The final rapid-assembly milestone on the Chiva site. Since the module arrives nearly complete from the workshop, the task sequence is intentionally agile and chained, with built-in time buffers between interventions to absorb adverse weather, logistics incidents or necessary corrections — the goal is a watertight structure as early as possible, then completing systems, finishes and cleaning within the planned window.
- 15 Feb 2027 – 17 Feb 2027
3.3Lower floor structures, columns and beams (CLT)
- 19 Feb 2027
3.4Upper floor / slab
- 22 Feb 2027 – 24 Feb 2027
3.5Container roof
- 25 Feb 2027 – 28 Feb 2027
3.6Partitions
- 3 Mar 2027
3.7Container and module envelope — OSB-4 panels
- 5 Mar 2027 – 8 Mar 2027
3.8Roofs
- 9 Mar 2027 – 18 Mar 2027
3.9Connection and integration of installations with the container
- 19 Mar 2027 – 22 Mar 2027
3.10Final on-site finishes
- 23 Mar 2027 – 25 Mar 2027
3.11Furniture and final finishes
- 26 Mar 2027 – 29 Mar 2027
3.12Systems / operational testing
- 30 Mar 2027
3.13General final cleaning
How to contribute to the build
Veïnat will need real collaboration in these areas. Specific needs will be confirmed and published as the project progresses.
- Materials
- Structures
- Insulation / envelope
- Renewable energy
- HVAC
- Electrical systems
- Water systems
- Sensors / control
- Transport / logistics
- Construction services
- Equipment
ASPOR
In-kind sponsorship
Collaboration on personal protective equipment and workplace safety gear for the Azalea team.
Other projects
The project that gave rise to Azalea: a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional Valencian "barraca," recognized at Solar Decathlon Europe 2019.
Sustainable housing for El Cabanyal that reinterprets the "escalà," a traditional architectural element of the neighborhood.
Citizen participation applied to energy and urban infrastructure.