Article source: Anna Solaz | Estudi d’Arquitectura
C11 HOUSE is the rehabilitation of a family house located in a small village called Bugarra, Spain. The project arises with this fundamental idea: to recover life around the patio and give back a clear environment and its former landscape.
This traditional patio house had been modified through the years and each generation had been adding fragments to this former house. As a result the Mediterranean patio house couldn’t be recognized anymore. The previous succession of enclosed rooms becomes a fluid and changing space, thus allowing cross ventilation and bringing light to the core of the house. The rest of the space is organized by light. All of the house’s rooms are moved to the first and second floor so that the ground floor can be entirely occupied by the family business. The connection with the exterior is emphasized by a series of openings on the walls that frame the views towards the surrounding landscape.
Modern single-family villa on 4 floors located in the beautiful coastal Spanish village Cambrils in Costa Dorada.
This project has been developed, designed and built by White Houses Costa Dorada’s team through a long and creative process in collaboration with the interior designer Susanna Cots, to obtain the perfect combination of modern architecture and comfortable living.
The design of the TPS was based on the conception of a great longitudinal axis to concentrate the technical areas and vertical circulation, distributing the different functions around continuous and transparent spaces. A mixed structure of steel and concrete was proposed to allow great flexibility in the program, allowing adjustments along the time without interfering in the airport dynamics. The canopy design was specially designed to avoid specific reflections of sunlight towards the airplanes, and becomes a surprise element for the airplane passengers who view it from above – the fifth facade, essential for an airport.
The port of La Savina is the main point of access to Formentera island. Its important geographical location makes it the border between an urban area, the Mediterranean Sea and a saltwater lake which forms part of Ses Salines Natural Park. Giving protection to the open sea, this lake has traditionally been used as a natural harbor to anchor small fishing boats. And, currently, the administration has deemed it suitable to house the municipal sailing school as well as other nautical sports and activities.
The functional program offered a duality (classrooms + offices versus workshop + dressing rooms) that has divided the volumetry into two independent parts aligning the first one with Almadrava Street and the second one with the passage of Balandra. At the intersection of both streets, the building offers an empty space with its visual permeability that incorporates the main access to the equipment. Between the two described volumes, there is a structure that provides a chill-out zone in the shadow and with its oblique geometry invites to enjoy the amazing views opening towards Estany des Peix.
Industrial areas are places that offer large spaces and easy access, characteristics that now seem to be impossible to find in more consolidated urban areas. It is not surprising that both retail traders and offices are setting up business in these areas, in an increasingly marked transition of industrial space towards the tertiary sector.
Spaces that can be generated by adapting old industrial buildings represent an inevitable chance for both owners and businesses, as for architects and designers. An example of this is the project for Sedka Novias carried out by Pablo Muñoz Payá, the Alicante architect studio established in Petrer.
Our client expresses a requirement but we change it into a strength. Facing a Budget issue we propose to find the constructive origins of the Building and find a primal language, industrial, expressed by the material nudity: exposed concrete, corrugated bars, clean surfaces in ceilings and walls.
It is located in the ground floor of a 1981 dwelling building, along Gran Via, at the hart of Murcia, near to Plaza de las Flores, the city’s gastronomic area.
A few kilometers from Bera, the “Landaburu borda” is a small traditional building, anchored in the magnificent landscape of the Navarre mountains.
To work in this exceptional location is an exercise of respect to the fragile building and especially to the mystical power of the Navarra mountains, rich in history and legends.
This project borns due to the need to creating a space that covers the neigbourhoods demands of the private residential area of Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia). The project had to fulfill a few determined characteristics, it was sought that these social centers offered a municipal corporate image, also that adapted to different locations, mainly because this social center is built in three different residential areas: that were accessible, wides (156,8m2) and cheap, mainly, very cheap. Here lies the key to the project: Construction + Technician + Taxes < 100.000€ = Module Economy.
Under the Mediterranean character that infuses its location, this house located on a small plot in the Vedat de Torrent pine forest (Valencia), is conceived as an absolute volume surrounded by pine trees that emerges behind a lattice that surrounds the front courtyard perimeter protection the family’s intimacy.
The access takes place through the back of the plot through a “street/garden” that also serves as a parking lot, leading the user downwards and tangentially towards the centre of the plot were a vacuum (living/dining room), under a large volume (bedrooms) becomes a shadow that as a “threshold-space” invites to the front yard, topped by a pool. It is this void in the heart of the house that articulates the entire program, both horizontally and vertically. The ground floor houses the kitchen and its courtyard on one side, and a small guest room with a courtyard, on the other. The basement level houses a multipurpose room illuminated by another courtyard. The bedrooms and a study are located on the first floor, which in counterpoint to the horizontality of the rest of the house, are conceived as vertical spaces.
An abandoned 100m2 storage space in a basement of a building from the 50’s in Barcelona turned into a loft & studio: a project that develops around two patios: a bigger one with loads of light, and a smaller that ensures good crossed natural ventilation.
The living area is parallel to the big patio, 13’5x4m originally built with Catalan vaults ceiling to be maintained. A small shed located in the big patio used to cover 1/2 of the patio, but to gain more natural light, it’s reduced to 1/4th of the area. This is where Marcel’s room is located, looking at the outdoor shower and the planters. Industrial Oak flooring was chosen for its aesthetic coherence with the existing form.
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