The structure of the building is generated by white concrete with wooden slat formwork, which allows the appearance of the four large cantilevers at the four corners on the ground floor. The interior and exterior are materially united by a continuous Campaspero limestone pavement, thus generating greater visual breadth.
Domus Damero by Jesús Donaire García de Mora. Photograph by Montse Zamorano.
Project description by Jesús Donaire
The Domus Damero is a golden concrete home with a rectangular base that maximizes the space delimited by the regulatory setbacks on a rhomboidal corner plot. A volume pierced with voids arranged in a staggered manner that make up a checkerboard, not only in the four facades but also in its three-dimensional interior configuration through a double height in its main space.
This composition establishes four different scenes on the ground floor, depending on the orientation, which become four porches in each of its corners thanks to its large windows - hidden in its walls with a galandage system -, generating continuity between the interior space and the outside. Similarly, the upper floor organizes each of the four bedrooms in its four corners. The distribution of the domestic program on both floors is organized around the path of the sun.
The construction of the structure is made of white concrete with wooden slat formwork, enabling the four large cantilevers at the four corners on the ground floor. The interior and exterior are diluted thanks to a continuous Campaspero limestone pavement that extends the four open corners of the house towards the diagonals of the plot, thus generating greater visual breadth. A central core houses the staircase, the elevator and the facilities that run through the three floors of the house. In terms of sustainability, the solar panels provide energy for the aerothermal consumption of the home, conceived as a zero-consumption construction.
