A diverse geometry for a home. House 016 by Arquitecturia
05/06/2023.
[Girona] Spain
Metalocus, ELENA DE LA FUENTE
Metalocus, ELENA DE LA FUENTE
Project description by Arquitecturia
The geometry of the house consists of six volumes arranged around a central courtyard that houses a part of the program and its size varies proportionally to the use of the house. They are connected through a cloistered space that collects the entrance and gravitates around the patio.
Three ways of looking at and relating to the exterior are contemplated: A look towards an interior courtyard through a space that connects all the rooms. A horizontal and bounded look that frames different fragments of the garden and that establishes a direct relationship with the exterior and the views but at the same time intimate. An open and wide look towards the sky is given by the relationship between the structure and the geometry of the roof and the load-bearing walls.
The central patio is open to generate a certain continuity with the garden that allows a natural and energetic permeability between the house and the forest of the golf course.
House 016 by Arquitecturia. Photograph by José Hevia.
Through cross ventilation, fresh air is provided in the interior spaces.
The material used is minimized with the structure proposal that allows large spans of up to 12m to be saved with a 9cm laminated wood floor thanks to the geometry of the diagonal of the squares.
The sloping roof with inverted gables collects water like a leaf through the use of vitrified ceramic cladding in green tones, which reflects and blends in with the trees. Part of this water is used to irrigate the garden, which is designed according to the principle of saving water with plants that require little watering.
Josep Camps (1975) studied architecture at the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona (00) | Worked for Atelier AO2 of Paris (1998) and Javier Sanjosé Office (2000-2003). He has received scholarship for taking part into different exchange programs and workshops including the Intercampus Scholarship at the Universidade Caixa du Sul and the program for ‘kashbes rehabilitation’ at Marocco by the UNESCO | Camps has been professor at the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona –UPC where he taught Studio Project V-VI and since 2005 he is profesor at the University of Girona where he is the director of Studio Project I-II together with Josep Fuses and Elisabet Capdeferro. He has been visiting professor at the Master of Cultural Heritage Managment of the University of Girona and member of the Final. Review Jury at the School of Architecture of Alicante. Besides his teaching work he develops her thesis project. ‘Intertwining Architecture’ for the research area of Theory and Practice of Architectural Design –UPC Barcelona-. Cofounder of curatorial and design group MA!O and co-founder of the architectural studio ARQUITECTURIA.
ARQUITECTURIA has worked on residential, sanitary, educational and cultural projects for both public and private sectors. The studio members studied in different European universities, still holding engagement with them, and are involved in research programmes and being in contact with innovation and research applied in the professional area.
Olga Felip Ordis (1980) studied architecture at the Superior School of Architecture of Barcelona (2005). During her degree, she received a scholarship for taking part in different exchange programs and workshops including the IDSA+U workshop at the School of Architecture of Edinburgh, the European exchange program EAEN working at the School of Architecture of Belleville–Paris and at UCLA University -California- and the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design ILAUD at UIAV – Venice | She received a scholarship for taking part at the International Congress of the Sixties Spanish Architecture and assisted at V DOCOMOMO Ibérico Congress about The GATPAC: Politics, culture and architecture on the thirties. In 2001 she assisted at the Summer School of the Architectural Association School of London. Co-founder of curatorial and design group MA!O, and co-founder of the architectural studio ARQUITECTURIA. Besides her professional career, she develops her thesis project for the research area of Theory and History of Architecture, at UPC Barcelona.
ARQUITECTURIA has worked on residential, sanitary, educational and cultural projects for both public and private sectors. The studio members studied in different European universities, still holding engagement with them, and are involved in research programmes and being in contact with innovation and research applied in the professional area.