BAT Bilbao social housing
BAT Bilbao’s 84 social housing units in Spain use dual‑orientation apartments and metal facades pushing toward Passive House performance — a tight sustainability play for dense urban social housing X post.
The development sits on Etxezuri street in the Peñota quarter of Ortuella and is arranged as two independent blocks. (enortuella.com) The Basque public housing company Visesa promoted and delivered the scheme. (euskadi.eus) Visesa recorded an investment of €6.5 million for the works. (deia.eus) Construction was completed in December 2020 and regional housing minister Iñaki Arriola visited the finished buildings during the handover. (enortuella.com) Provisional lists of successful applicants for the allocation were published on 8 March 2021 under expediente EB2-1010/15-EC-000. (etxebide.euskadi.eus) Management of the rental stock was assigned to Alokabide, the Basque social-rental agency. (euskadi.eus) Project records list the scheme as built in 2020 on Architizer, and BAT Bilbao Architecture Team — founded by Peru Cañada and Xabier Arranz — is credited as the design studio. (architizer.com) Local documentation specifies the unit mix as one single‑bedroom, 39 two‑bedroom and 44 three‑bedroom dwellings, and officials anticipated occupancy would begin by mid‑2021. (enortuella.com)
