All these rooms face the interior of the patio through large floor-to-ceiling windows, highlighting the lower floor and its connection with the open space and the pool. In this way, a dual language is created between the facades of the project; on the one hand, neutral white walls for the most perimeter facades, and, on the other hand, a suggestive brick wall for the innermost courtyard facades. This dual language is also extrapolated to the interior of the house.
Description of project by DANA Arquitectos
“Casa Mitmac” is a single-family home located in the neighborhood called La Paz in Zaragoza (Spain). We are in a predominantly residential neighborhood, in which there are single-family and collective homes of different heights.
This house is projected in a really characteristic context due to the morphology of the piece of ground in which it is located. It is a square piece of ground of 10 meters on each side, and located at 3 meters deep, in which we place a volume of various heights in the “L” shape, that generates a characteristic English courtyard, facing south and delimited by walls, able to giving the house the necessary privacy and lighting.
When we enter the house, we pass through an entrance porch that at the same time acts as a garage, from which we can see the courtyard and the connection that this space creates between the different heights of the house.
The entrance floor of the house, as well as its lower floor, correspond to the most public rooms of the house: living room, kitchen, dining room ... while the upper floors correspond to more private rooms such as the main rooms or the studio of the last plant.
All these rooms are oriented to the interior courtyard through large floor-to-ceiling windows, accentuating the lower floor and its connection with the open space and the pool. Given the relevance of the courtyard of this house, a special materiality is given to this space which distinguishes it from the rest of the house.
In this way, a dual language is created between the facades of the project; on the one hand, neutral white walls for the most perimeter facades, and, on the other hand, a suggestive manual brick wall for the interior courtyard facades.
In addition, it is important to emphasize the brick laying, forming vertical lines that create that special and dynamic composition of the facade. This dual language is also extrapolated to the interior of the house, appearing ceramic material in some of the most important rooms of the house.
Some examples are the exposed brick wall in the kitchen; or the most impressive, the ceiling composed of ceramic vaults on the lower floor. The rest of the house interior maintains a more neutral character with light colors, accentuating the element of the staircase, which is defined with a minimum and thin metal line that is supported by several white tensioners.
