Spanish follow Arquitecturia has accomplished a house within the Catalan city of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised round a courtyard at its centre.
Girona-based Arquitecturia, led by Josep Camps and Olga Felip, designed Home 016 to foster an in depth connection to each its website, which is surrounded by lawns and timber, and the inner backyard.
“The home presents 3 ways to have a look at and relate to the surface: an intimate one into an inside courtyard…a horizontal one with framed views to totally different items of backyard…[and] and open and broad view of the sky,” defined the follow.
“The scale and proportion of every quantity responds to its use, [and they] are all linked by means of a type of cloister the place the doorway is situated,” it continued.
Across the central courtyard, a U-shaped hall area connects every of the house’s blocks. That is absolutely glazed on one aspect to miss the courtyard and on the opposite to look out on the panorama.
On entry, this hall creates a protracted axis by means of the complete depth of the constructing, visually linking a dwelling, eating and kitchen area to the northeast with three en-suite bedrooms reverse.
For the bedrooms, this organisation permits mild to flood the areas whereas sustaining privateness, with giant home windows trying inwards onto the planted courtyard.
Every of the house’s blocks is topped by an angular butterfly roof completed with inexperienced ceramic tiles, designed to channel rainwater down into the central backyard.
The type of these sloping roofs has been used to offer every block a triangular strip of home windows, that are set in deep frames to minimise glare.
“The sloping gabled roof collects water like a leaf by means of the usage of green-glazed ceramic tiles, which mirror and mix in with the timber,” stated the follow.
“A few of this water is used to irrigate the backyard, designed in keeping with the precept of saving water with crops that require little watering,” it added.
Externally, the pale, board-marked concrete base of every block has been left uncovered, contrasted by darkish wood frames for home windows and doorways and topped by a roofline completed in white timber batons.
Inside, the massive ceilings of cross-laminated timber have been left uncovered, complemented by wood panelling to the partitions and polished concrete flooring that assist to bounce mild across the areas.
Earlier tasks by Arquitectura embrace a timber-clad artist’s studio in Girona, with a big, central skylit area for creating and hanging work, and a swimming pool with ridged steel partitions.
