Article source: Studio Wet 

“We carried out the expansion of a detached house, in an urban environment with a city model already closed years ago, a legally protected atmosphere, a building remaining in the plot that customers are willing to exhaust but always under the premise of a budget Limited and with reasonable programmatic requirements.We also add the derivations of the urban regulations -separation to boundaries and maximum fund- and the technological limitations in the local construction.To our methodology we call it critical pragmatism.Through it a project is built Of the tangible thing that always evaluates as contingencies indispensable, never assigning them the name of renunciation.In the end, contingencies become one, its construction.With
our proposal we respect the existing building by action (enlargement is done with a language Totally different) and omission (without transforming the volume or its appearance.) We have also found in the reverberation of the curved motives a vehicle for the visual coherence of the proposal, both for us in the process and for the client in the constructed. The curve as an expression of what is added to the existing building, both internally and externally.

And the result is a slowly developed and slowly built project. Too slowly, we are aware that this is also a luxury, especially for us, and that model of work is bound to disappear.

Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda Photography

• Architects: Studio Wet (Gómez Mora, José and Montes Estrada, Daniel )
• Project: Lissen House
• Location: Castilleja de la Cuesta (Sevilla), Spain
• Photography: Fernando Alda Photography
• Collaborators: Sharifa Haidari, Manvir Hansra, Anna Thomaidou, Julián Calvo, Simona Lupo
• Structure: Pedro Lobato
• Facilities: Víctor Silveira
• Execution Director: Daniel Yusty
• Constructora: Cruz y Maguillo SL
• Date: 11/23/2016

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