Galician rururban landscape fills every corner around Casa Máxima. There´s corn crops across the street, but a little bit further you can see piles of cars that are going to be smashed into small boxes in a car scrapping. The house is situated in a very diffuse limit between the city and old agriculture spaces. Slowly developing as an expansion area for familiar houses, the plot of land was also very irregular, due to the old tradition of ¨minifundio¨ which in Galicia consisted in splitting the agricultural land between all the sons and daughters of a marriage.

This particular proceeding, resulted into the very small and unusual shapes of the plots of land of this rururban areas. So the project from the begining needed to acommodate into this magical geometric reality. One of the first desires of the project promoter, was to have a house with no stairs, so all the programme had to fit into just one floor plan. The thin plot was structured around some small volumes that connect with each other and separate the different uses of the house. Instead of doing a strategy of open plan, we decided to do the opposite, the house works more as a comic.

Each room is a story in itself, being a sequence of different panels. Each room or volume has its own communication with the sky, so the light changes every room throught the day, but also differences the spaces by the light and shadows. Also every volume, has it´s own visual and physical opening to the garden, so from anyone of the rooms one has the feeling of being a little bit outside, the use of the continuum element of the grey flooring, intensifies this effect, so the limits between outside‐inside blurs.