The house seems to float on the ground, with its projecting terraces on two sides, in middle is the family living room, sits at the centre of the upper-ground floor.
The interior start with a brilliant yellow door, all is wood. Walking through the house, the living room with its chimney rise this feeling, warm feeling, wood and landscapes. On the left, one cantilever out to face distant mountains to the East, while on the right, westward, views towards a landscape of rocks and brambles.
Wooden stairs lead down to the partially submerged lower floor, where an open-plan layout creates a space that can be used as a separate guesthouse. Minimal house, a house well photographed.
Project description by architects
Yellow
This is a humanized landscape of meadows, walls, ash, streams, a small-scale landscape, minimal, almost domestic, and where absolutely everything happens in yellow.
In spring poke all yellow flowers.
In the summer, yellow cereal is yellow harvested in a yellow Castilian heat.
Fall only comes here in yellow, millions of tiny ash leaves that die in a lingering and dry yellow.
In winter, yellow insists in glowing flashes of yellow lichen on the gray trunks of ash trees.
And here every machine is yellow, the signs are yellow, everywhere yellows...
We bought a meadow in this landscape 15 years ago, and after 12 years of yellow contemplation, we decided to build a tiny house there, a refuge, a piece of landscape as a frame, a small inhabited threshold with two views, east and west.
To the west, a nearby view of rocks, moss, brambles and ancient ash. And to the east, the distant dawn over the yellow mountains.
This double view and the thinking body finished to draw the house.
Everything is small, everything is short, everything has a tiny scale.
From outside, the view slides over the house.
The eye only stops at a yellow gate guarding the doorway, and a yellow chimney that warms it, the rest is invisible.
And when sitting, stopping in the doorway, the house disappears and the world continues in yellow.
Text by.- Jose María de Churtichaga and Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo
CREDITS.-
Architects.- Jose María de Churtichaga y Cayetana de la Quadra-Salcedo.
Collaborators.- Nathanael López.
Builder.- Pablo Campoverde.
Location.- Berrocal, Segovia. Spain.
Building Area.- 150 m².
Area.- 2000 (project), 2011 (completed).
