Article source: Pepe Gascón Arquitectura

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[A very well-matched elderly couple is discussing what trees to plant and where in the garden of their second residence, a small, detached, single-storey house with a barbecue as big as the living-dining room. It is winter and the house only has the roof framing in place.]

She: A cypress. That’s the tree that every Catalan farmhouse has at the entrance. Right here’s where we’re going to plant it. Then we’ll see it as soon as we come up from the street and it will welcome us.

Image Courtesy © José Hevia

• Architects: Pepe Gascón Arquitectura
• Project: BARBACOA HOUSE
• Location: Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain
• Photography: José Hevia
• Client: Anna Ros Blasco
• Contractor: Excavaciones Egara, S.L. (Terrassa, Barcelona), Spain
• Project year: 2012
• Completion date: Marzo de 2013
• Project area: 91, 00 m2
• Cost: 76.000, 00 €
• Other collaborators: Estudio de arquitectura e ingeniería DCE 2002, SL (structural engineering)