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Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced
THE LAST HOUSE
Product Spec Sheet

ElementBrandProduct Name
walls and floorInvestwood
SanitarywareRoca
WindowsAluminios Barcelona, S.L.
CarpentryFINSA
ManufacturersPLADUR
Electric mechanismsSIMON

Product Spec Sheet
Sanitaryware
by Roca
Carpentry
by FINSA
Manufacturers
by PLADUR
Electric mechanisms
by SIMON

THE LAST HOUSE

arnau estudi d'arquitectura as Architects

After the collapse of the old priest's house, in the sixties it was decided to build a new house based on the remaining walls. The need to use that new structure as a feed storage left the inside of the house unbuilt. Our project of rebuilding and completing an unusedstructure as a new house starts out on this premise.

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The responsibility of rendering the very last building of a row of houses in the old town leads us to reinterpreting the complex and peculiar original space. In this sense, the project proposes to reorganize its composition separating it into two simple volumes: the main one, with a two-sloped roof, which rises leaving the old stone base visible andforms a semi-exterior ground floor; and  the secondary volume, which slides virtually to the ground to receive us and accompany us to the upper house.

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The main requirement of this commission was to build a house with which its owners could establish an emotional connection during their retirement. That is why the spaces in the last house are made up of reading corners next to the fireplace, a bench at the entrance, childhood landscapes or a courtyard for a beech tree. After all, upon closer look, time is made of seasons, of rooster's songs and bell chimes.

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