The public housing built under the Franco regime in Spain (1939–1975) brought about the largest urban growth in the country’s recent history. It shares similar characteristics with other public housing built in Europe during the 20th century, and today it houses a predominantly multicultural and socioeconomically precarious population. This study analyses and evaluates three estates that make up a new urban axis in the city of Murcia. The objective is to evaluate the benefits and shortcomings of these developments in order to establish rehabilitation plans, which will seek to improve the lives of their inhabitants and enhance their experience of the urban area from environmental, functional and interactive perspectives. The methodology used for this study is based on the application of three systems of indicators in order to obtain a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of each neighborhood. The quantitative analysis evaluates the urban area in terms of environmental sustainability, while the two qualitative systems explore the neighborhoods’ functionality and ability to instil a sense of attachment, and therefore responsibility, among their inhabitants. In its conclusions, the article provides concrete lines of action for updating and regenerating these residential areas that form a significant part of the city of Murcia.

The study of deployable structures has been carried out traditionally by simplifying their constituent elements—joints and rods—to ideal entities. However, in this paper the dimensional thickness of these elements is taken into account, in order to evaluate their incidence on the foldability of four deployable structure systems. We have examined the eccentricity that occurs specifically at the joints themselves. Our study ultimately characterizes the incidence of this factor by defining noteworthy parameters common to both tube bundle and scissor systems, enabling us to establish a comparison and draw relevant conclusions.

El problema de la vivienda obrera en España se estuvo generando durante décadas debido a diferentes causas socioeconómicas. La promulgación de la 1ª Ley de Casas Baratas en 1911 fue la primera respuesta del Estado como toma de conciencia de este grave problema social, pero en tanto se gestaba, las distintas soluciones para el alojamiento obrero fueron propuestas por múltiples agentes (privados, cooperativas, administración, etc.). Este artículo ofrece un recorrido por algunos proyectos significativos de vivienda obrera en la comarca de Cartagena analizando sus propuestas gráficas, desde las obras más sencillas y cotidianas, hasta la solución excepcional del proyecto para el primer concurso de vivienda social en la España del siglo XX, que propone la construcción de dos barrios obreros en Cartagena. Finalmente se exponen los aspectos y pautas identificadas en este tipo de representaciones para la producción de vivienda.

This paper analyses the relationship and influence of North African and Middle Eastern architectures on the birth and development of modern architecture in Central European countries during the first three decades of twentieth century. The authors examine the contacts that the Central European architectural avant-garde had with the architecture of North Africa and the Middle East, and analyse how certain German and Austrian architects reacted to what they witnessed and how they interpreted it in their ensuing designs and projects. Architects in both countries were seeking a new formal code that responded to the needs of the era. The authors’ aim here is to determine how and to what extent each country’s avant-garde adopted the repertoire of vernacular Mediterranean architecture during the critical period of development of the Modern Movement.