Part of:

• Fonds: Ábalos&Herreros fonds, 1920-2009
•    Series: Architectural projects, 1953-2009
•      Project: Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain (2003), 1998, 2002-2003, predominant 2003

People:

• Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
• Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
• Iñaki Abalos (architect)
• Juan Herreros (architect)
• Abalos+Sentkiewicz Arquitectos (architectural firm)
• Teresa Galí-Izard (landscape architect)
• Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda (client)

Title:

Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain (2003)

Date:

1998, 2002-2003, predominant 2003

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

• 64 printouts
  26 photographic materials
  22 drawings
  9 reprographic copies
  3 CD-Rs
  1 graphic record
  0,08 l.m. of textual records

Scope and content:
The project series documents the two Sociópolis projects for the account of the Instituto Valenciano de Vivienda. The firm identified this project as number 162.

The first project was for two communes (2003); a retirement centre and a youth centre. Both communes would have lived together around a shared vegetable garden. Abalos & Herreros worked with the landscaping architect Teresa Galí. The project was not built.

The second project was for an apartment tower in Valencia, Spain (2004-2005). It was built by Abalos + Sentkiewicz after the dissolution of Abalos & Herreros in 2008.

Documenting the project are conceptual drawings, presentation documents, dummies, project descriptions, correspondence, digital, photographic and reference materials.

Reference number:

AP164.S1.2003.D2

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Location:

Valencia Spain

Language of material:

• Spanish

Related units of description:

• Note that there are additional presentation drawings and 8 photographic materials related to this project arranged in series AP164.S2 and AP164.S3. See files ARCH277702, ARCH277704, ARCH270966, ARCH270975, ARCH270976, and ARCH270977.

Contains:

• ARCH274210, Portfolio containing presentation documents for the project Sociopolis, Valencia, Spain, ca. 2002-2003
• ARCH278084, Sketches, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, ca. 2003
• ARCH278085, Project description and reference materials, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, ca. 2002-2003
• ARCH278086, Reference materials, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, 2003
• ARCH278087, Correspondence an a few sketches, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, 2003
• ARCH278088, Presentation drawings and views of the area/landscape, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, ca. 2003
• ARCH278089, Day care centre for the elderly program, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, ca. 2003
• ARCH278090, Manual de accesibilidad arquitectónica, 1998
• ARCH283727, Three CD-Rs, Sociópolis, Valencia, Spain, 2000-2003