Casa Riscos in Barrio de Nervión, Sevilla by Studio Wet

Article source: Studio Wet

Agustín and Pilar lived in an apartment on the first floor of a small building that had been built in phases. It started as a single story workshop followed by an upstairs apartment add-on with a small 2.5 x 2.5 m patio. After buying the workshop, their wish was to unify the levels into a single family home, using all possible gross surface area and extending it with a penthouse. Three architectural elements show up that go beyond the basic refurbishment: a new attic, a new stair connecting it with the rest of the building, and a patio that now extends to the ground floor.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

• Architects: Studio Wet (Jose Gómez Mora, Daniel Montes)
• Project: Casa Riscos
• Location: Barrio de Nervión, Sevilla
• Photography: Fernando Alda
• Statics: Pedro Lobato, Estructura
• Elec&Mechanical: Víctor Silveira, Instalaciones
• Quantity Surveyor: Carmen Esteban Garmendia, Dirección de Ejecución
• Promotor: Familia Gallego-Riscos
• Buiding Company: Cruz y Maguillo S. L.
• Project: 2017
• Work: Building 2017-2018

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

We see our part in this project as being about concluding the building. We have taken the final steps of the process while creating a character that, without forgetting the building's previous phases, makes the entire building coherent. We make this obvious on the patio where vertical steel elements extend through the height of the building, unifying all floors, while the different levels are marked with different colours (cement grey, white and english green) of the same materials. The penthouse, all in english green, is covered with a cantilevered exposed concrete slab that finishes the structure, because we think that in some way buildings should tell that they are concluded.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

Image Courtesy © Studio Wet

Image Courtesy © Studio Wet

Image Courtesy © Studio Wet

Image Courtesy © Studio Wet

Tags: Barrio de Nervión, Sevilla

Categories: House, Residential

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