House in Palomeque

This is a little and simply house in a small town near Toledo. The site had a fiendish geometry and communicates with the street through a long corridor only four meters wide. The house is attached to the party walls leaving as much space as possible in the form of courtyards. The experience of the house is conceived as a journey from the public to the intimate in which the spaces are dilating and contracting, changing from vertical to horizontal to lead us finally in the living area that, like an estuary of peace, opens onto the principal courtyard and onto a more secluded and secondary another one. It is undeniable the reference to cloisters as intimate space and as an image of Paradise. The house opens onto this cloister after been traveled and discovered in the contrasted itinerary that drives us from the gateway to the heart of the house. The budget scarcity determines a great material simplicity. We consider it in consonance with the monastic ideal that inspires the whole house.