Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced

BlackB_House

Joan Puigcorbé as Architects

Oaks, holm oaks, olive trees, cypresses and native plants are planted around a non-aligned sequence of double-height pillars, built inside and outside with exposed black ceramic brick. 

photo_credit Jordi Miralles
Jordi Miralles

Exposed concrete platforms are suspeded among these pillars, leaving part of the interior spaces double height, and leaving vertical openings between the pillars that bring us closer to the various exterior trees, while at the same time taking our eyes from the land of the garden to the sky.

photo_credit Jordi Miralles
Jordi Miralles

On the ground floor, the main spaces: living room, dining room, kitchen and stairs, are open and at the same time clearly delimited. The cross-views throughout the floor give us the feeling of a continuous green exterior environment.

photo_credit Jordi Miralles
Jordi Miralles

The exterior porch gives continuity to the interior by the same treatment of materials, exposed concrete flooring and black brick pillar-walls.

photo_credit Jordi Miralles
Jordi Miralles

On the upper floor, partially occupied, are the bedrooms and a small TV room. These bedrooms act with both exterior and interior spaces, creating internal facades, thus emphasizing the vertical relationship of the spaces. The swimming pool, adjacent to the porch, sets a limit between what is built and the jarden. 

 

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