Article source: ENDALT Arquitectes

The destruction of l’Horta of València, one of the main cultural and environmental values of the metropolitan area of the city, has been a constant in our territory. Within the framework of a recently created urbanization that is destroying part of this heritage, Casa de les Porxades is born with the intention of recovering and giving meaning to the architecture of the past in the territory on which it is built, while taking advantage of the lessons of sustainability and landscape integration of vernacular architecture from a contemporary vision and language.

Formally, the house follows the path of the alquerías, rural houses linked to an agricultural exploitation, that we find a few meters from this urbanization surrounded by orchards; buildings composed of a main two-sided volume to which other volumes with diverse geometries are attached: with sloping roofs, flat roofs, porches, etc. This also gives off an air of organic growth characteristic of traditional architecture.

Image Courtesy © David Zarzoso

• Architects: ENDALT Arquitectes
• Project: Casa de les Porxades
• Location: Albal, Spain
• Photography: David Zarzoso
• Constructed area: 232 m2
• Construction completion year: 2022

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