The Catalan studio Arquitectura-G has completed the project of House Costa, a three-story house located in the cosmopolitan capital of the region of Catalonia, Barcelona.

The project was born to be an architectural exercise that seeks to convert the complicated plot where it is located, surrounded by adjoining party walls, into a comfortable, fresh and livable space.
In the house designeb by Arquitectura-G, the façade is considered as a closing element, whose function is limited to being a wall that delimits the boundary of the interior space face to outside urban space.

Inside, the courtyard serves as an area that articulates the rest of the plot space. In this way, the porch that surrounds it becomes a habitable viewpoint in a hybrid space , a transition space between two worlds, where the clarity and neatness of the space invite the user to inhabit the project connecting with nature exterior.
 

Description of project by Arquitectura-G

An exercise on making a porch habitable around a patio garden. 

The plot is surrounded by party walls, and the façade is just one more wall that encloses an interior space that wants to be exterior. 

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240 sqm.
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2021.
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Barcelona, Spain.
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Arquitectura-G is a studio of architecture founded in 2006 based in Barcelona, by Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes and Igor Urdampilleta, mainly dedicated to construction and teaching. They understand their work as a team, where individualities are dissolved in an addition of ways of doing. Material aspect is fundamental for the them, seing it as a field of research. Currently the office includes small projects and starts a new stage to approach larger projects.

In 2008 created ESCRITOS-G as learning tool and to improve the business, with the desire to create a critical discourse and trigger discussion about contemporary architecture. It is a serie of conversations about architecture held between members of ARCHITECTURE-G, the philosopher Ekhi Lopetegi and several young architects whose work has sparked interest in the profession, society and the media.

In 2011 launched INDOORS a section focused on reformulation and internal reorganization of urban housing adapted to living contemporary culture.

 

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Published on: January 18, 2022
Cite: "A habitable porch around a patio. Costa House by Arquitectura-G" METALOCUS. Accessed
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