Article source: Studio Wet

Alosno is a small village in “Andévalo”, a subregion of the Province of Huelva in the southwest of Spain. It is a place known for a special type of Flamenco music called Fandango, world famous charcuterie Jamón Ibérico, and close proximity to the mines of Tharsis, and thus to its english colonial architecture.

In this context we were commissioned to design a single family house, described as “traditional” by our clients. It was to accommodate an extremely compartmentalized plan that included a free standing garage and the desire to have the home be a single story building on a given 7 x 40 meter plot.

This was again a good opportunity to approach these contingencies with a certain level of critical pragmatism, as we often term our approach, beyond the cliches that we all bring to the design table.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda

• Architects: Studio Wet
• Project: Casa Borrero
• Location: Alosno, Spain
• Photography: Fernando Alda
  
• Collaborators: Anna Marchant, Isabella Duffield, Jane Ching-Yee Ling, Matthew Forbes-Yandi, Anabel Orellana, Rohit Nandha. Pedro Lobato, Estructura – Statics. Víctor Silveira, Instalaciones – Elec&Mechanical, Jose Maria Sanchez Garcia, Dirección de Ejecución – Quantity Surveyor.
• Promotor: Juan Antonio Borrero Calvo
  
• Buiding Company: Construcciones En General Borrero Y Redondo SLL
  
• Year: Project 2017
  
• Building: 2018-2019
  

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