Colorful garden

Located in a consolidated housing estate near Valencia, Olea House starts from some difficult geometry and constraints, particularly the narrow façade available on the plot. Its design is based on the breaking of the volume of the house and the generation of several pieces that seek to suit those initial handicaps. Mariela Apollonio The house recalls the local vernacular architecture by adapting the stone plinths of the nearby dwellings. The different pieces of the house have a stonework plinth that is higher or lower depending on the proportions of the piece and its openings. Mariela Apollonio Each piece protrudes out of the attached one in order to articulate a layout that try to generate different views of the garden a... More