The house is developed in the part of the plot facing south, which seeks the entry of light and generate pleasant spaces for users. In addition, in the open courtyards it seeks to generate a game of shadows and that transition between interior-exterior. At the same time, combining the use of traditional and pre-existing carpentry and coatings with contemporary furniture and finishes creates a contrast and allows us to recall and evoke the evolution of the home over a century.
Description of project by González Morgado Arquitectura
"It is said that when a Sevillian had a house built, he said to his architect: Make me a large patio on this site and good corridors if there is any land left, make rooms for me."
Joaquín Hazañas.
Roman domus, Muslim dwelling, courtyard house ... Domus Atrio is a house located in the historic center of Lepe, Huelva. It was built during the second half of the 19th century, but its original form evolved until the 1930s, where the work was completed after a series of successive architectural layers. This is how this traditional construction continues to this day, which, still built a little over a century ago, could well have been erected a thousand years ago, since its nature is essential. Roman, Muslim and Andalusian house. Patio house. His skin is regionalist in style, with a certain neo-Mudejar influence. His oldest soul yet.
The house contains three patios, around which the rest of the rooms are arranged. Its spatial sequence is reminiscent of the Roman domus. The vestibule or hall is followed by the atrium, but this time not as an impluvium to collect rainwater, but rather as a natural light collector. The heart of the house, the living room and the dining room, is located in the place of the tablinum, a representative space of the Roman house and link between the atrium and the peristyle. The clear reading of this spatial axis, to reorganize the routes and achieve visual breadth and depth, turned out to be the objective of the intervention and the key generating idea of the project. This axis, so typical of the Andalusian patio house, connects distribution patios, which in turn naturally illuminate and ventilate each and every room in the house.
The skin, considered as the surface layers of the house, interior facades and partitions, were subjected to a contemporary revision, since a series of “boxes” of server spaces were introduced between the original walls. The essence, represented in the structure and morphology of the courtyards, however, never changed. The intervention only wanted to reaffirm the house so that it would continue being what it was, a house with three patios, a traditional construction.
