Peraleda House in Cáceres, Spain by Losada Garcia Arquitectos

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Peraleda House is a comprehensive rebuild, keeping part of the original walls of the existing house and the yard, located in a small and historic town in Cáceres. The project aims to think about how to revive an existing house into a contemporary home in a classic urban area setting with restrictive rules.

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• Architects: Losada Garcia Arquitectos (Ramiro Losada-Amor and Alberto García Jiménez)
• Project: Peraleda House
• Location: Peraleda e la Mata, Cáceres, Spain
• Photography: Javier Lairado Arte-On
  
• Collaborators: Adriana Quesada
• Builder: Domus fortis
• Budget: 196.020 euros + VAT
• Surface: 330 m²
  
• Ratio: 594 € /m²
  
• Year: 2015

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To do that, two distinct elements are combined. On the one hand, a stone element as the ordinances dictate that lays the base of the house span the entrance and give access to the home through metal doors. On the other hand, a sinuous line crosses the night areas and the pool and forms the inner courtyard.

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

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This duality provides two types of facades: an introverted one with metallic and flared openings respond to those of a church across the street; and the other one is extroverted with large openings that let in light through the courtyard.

Strategies:

1. Access to the House through the hallway that the stone masonry conforms to.
2. Introverted-facades avoiding the views of neighbors and outgoing-facade that illuminates the interior.
3. Enter from the hallway through metal doors to the daily areas.

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Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

Losada Garcia Architects

Alberto García Jiménez and Ramiro Losada-Amor are a Building Engineers and Architects. Following their scholarship studies in Italy and Belgium, they moved on to work experience in the field of Design, Architecture, and Urbanism in Madrid, London and Rotterdam. In 2007 they founded Losada Garcia Architects based in Cáceres. Currently they open an office in San Diego. They have 3 areas of focus:

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>>> Experimental architecture; with award such as Winner of Interior Architecture award Saloni or Architectural Record 2016.

>>> University teaching; since 2007 they are Professor of Architectural Design at UEM-Architecture Madrid and La Escuela de Arte y Diseño Camilo José Cela. They were vising Professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig and Architecture Design Sciences Artesis, Antwerp. Currently they are Professor at New School of Architecture&Design of San Diego, California.

>>> Audiovisual documentation about Architecture (as founder of Studio Banana TV) including several interviews with architects international prestige such as Herzog de Meuron, Toyo Ito or Mansilla Tuñon o audiovisual documentation of buildings such as Canal Theater (Navarro Baldeweg), Benirdom Beach (Carlos Ferrater) or Spanish Pavilion for Expo Shanghai 2010 (EMBT).

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

Image Courtesy © Javier Lairado Arte-On

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Image Courtesy © Losada Garcia Arquitectos

Image Courtesy © Losada Garcia Arquitectos

Image Courtesy © Losada Garcia Arquitectos

Image Courtesy © Losada Garcia Arquitectos

Tags: Caceres, Spain

Category: House

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