CONTEXT
The intention is the design of a single-family dwelling that explores an intense relationship with the exterior space.
The available land is part of a plot in an advanced phase of construction and is already perfectly delimited and enclosed by walls, in the encounter with the neighbours.
STRATEGY
The plot in question assumes an exceptional position in the urban fabric, allowing a different approach from the others: instead of the typical central layout, two storey volumetry and a reduced and narrow garden all around the house, the proposed residence will stretch the plot in a single storey, thus creating five outdoor spaces with distinct qualities, dimensions and proportions.
The surrounding wall that delimits the whole space, against which the volumes that make up the house lean or move away from, thereby establishes the boundaries of construction that allows the simultaneous design of an interior space, which houses the main programme, and of a set of exterior spaces, or voids full of nature, that benefit from an intimate and introspective atmosphere, isolated from the urbanised surroundings.
EXPERIENCE
The house is one-storey and continuous, in a succession of spaces organized by a gradation of intimacy(ies) and established between service spaces, common spaces and private spaces. Its geometry and formalization is not unrelated to the strategic location of the glazed openings, which seek a relationship with the outside, establishing an alternating game of dimmed and lit spaces, configuring distinct atmospheres of pause and silence.
On arriving from the outside, the porch marks the entrance and parking space, drawing an extensive space in shadow that announces an inner world. Inside, the consecutive spaces extend their limits to the adjoining outdoor patios, increasing the perception of spatial amplitude by emphasising its depth through a succession of visual planes: the construction of exterior universes, delimited and walled, thematically feeds the interior spaces while bringing the sky back into the interior of each one of the spaces.
