This is how the project is integrated into the city, managing to generate more complex and unconventional interior spaces. Through the materiality, the overall concept is tied up, generating an abstract and surprising image.
Description of project by Garmendia Cordero arquitectos
A house with the main facade facing a central and wide pedestrian street in the city of Logroño immediately turned its floor plan to adjust the perimeter and distribution to the strange block to which it belonged, leaving almost the entire building referenced to the inner courtyard instead of the main road.
The solution that was proposed to recognize the real hierarchies of the context as well as to avoid a house divided into two unbalanced parts was to submit the resulting geometry to the urban fabric of the environment, changing the axes defined by the perimeter of the plot and assuming those defined by the exterior urbanism, thus resulting in a distribution parallel to the main facade, as opposed to the more direct solution that would have followed the directionality of that perimeter.
This decision, in addition to locating the project in the city, managed to generate interior spaces that were more complex and richer than conventional. The corridor becomes a succession of "antechambers" of the different rooms while the bedrooms forget the most usual rectangular shapes to end up contorting on themselves adapting to the script of the project.
Through the materiality, the global concept is tied and, thus, golden aluminum is used to give nobility to an access space of small dimensions and thus generate an abstract and surprising image to those who come inside while in the open space linked to the main facade the solid brick that constitutes the dividing walls is recovered to expose the constructive gestures that make the building turn and in the bedrooms, white is imposed to better accompany the play of intermediate spaces that are generated.
A project resolved from the city and with geometry as a means to achieve it.
