Spanish house design

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Project • By Fran Silvestre Architects • Private Houses

PIERA HOUSE

The project talks about setting limits and their permeability. The first border is established between the street and the free space of the house, in Burriana, as in many municipalities the regulations establish a maximum dimension for the opaque fence and the rest of the height with a permeable materiality. Caption We decided, perhaps influenced by the gate that Andreu Alfaro together with Emilio Giménez designed both in the house and in the sculptor's studio, to make this border as an opaque filter for the views and penetrable for light and air, with a constant materiality in full height. Caption This fine line built with aluminum profiles, which are arranged at an angle that prevents the view from the outside, draws a... More

News • News • 19 May 2021

Las 3 Marias enhances the character of a 1960s Spanish residence on the Mediterranean

This project by Bajet Giramé Architects aims to enhance, and exaggerate, the courtyard-house character of a summer residence from the sixties on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. From wide and sunny, to intimate and shady, the use of coves, topography, loggias and gardens offer a spatial continuum that blurs the lines between indoors and outdoors, providing a landscape of vitality and delight.  José Hevia The pre-existing wall enclosure in the garden, which distinguishes two areas of the surrounding patios, is echoed throughout the site. The result is a gregarious and playful matrix of exterior and interior rooms, each with varying dimensions, character, light and temperature – yet all interconnected... More