The main objective of this housing project is the privacy and its integration in the environment. The horizontal volume is oriented by the views and sun path.
The project aims to develop the maximum facade length by occupying the whole plot from north to south that gives the house a sensation of great horizontal size.
This house belongs to a set of projects developed by Sio2 that reformulates the type of the single family house through landscape integration. In these works, we experimented with roofs as organizing systems and we avoided the traditional role of facades as compositional mechanisms.
We enter a placeas a story: we get used to it, we a ppropriate it.In the heart of the island of Menorca, protected from the a gressions of the modernity and the mass tourism, there is a place over hanging the harbor where stands a palace from the XVIII century.Can Faustino is an invitation to dream and to the peace of mind.
Being a summer house, the main idea is not only creating the interior spaces of the house, but distribute all outer space. The interior spaces seek good relations with the outside world, colonizing their surroundings and their views.
The clients asked for a house that had to be close from the outside but open from the inside. Had to have introverted facades, to maintain the privacy of their adjacent plot, but at the same time generous views towards all its carefully landscaped perimeter.
Tags: Balearic Islands, Menorca, Spain Comments Off on 4 PORCHES AND 4 SKYLIGHTS HOUSE in Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain by Ferran Vizoso architecture & Jesus Cardona
As an extension of the urban tissue of Es Mercadal, characterized by a network of narrow streets and small courtyards, the project was conceived as a mat building, where houses open to an ordered series of patios and connected through two access galleries. The building volume is excavated with various operations to be filled with light and air.
Being a summer house, the main idea is not only creating the interior spaces of the house, but distribute all outer space. The interior spaces seek good relations with the outside world, colonizing their surroundings and their views.
The project arises from the consideration of the specific character of holiday life and the Balearic islands’ gentle climate. The house is conceived mainly as a porch crossed by air, light and scenery. The ample program is organized in local-stone volumes which configure, in the spaces between them, the north-side patio and, under the first floor, the main living space. Three powerful concrete porches perpendicular to the stone volumes frame the sea in the horizon, set the northern limit of the patio, and define the relationship between the later and the main living space.
Being a summer house, the main idea is not only creating the interior spaces of the house, but distribute all outer space. The interior spaces seek good relations with the outside world, colonizing their surroundings and their
views.
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