Díaz and Díaz Arquitectos have finished this detached house with basement and ground floor in the Galician city of La Coruña, Spain.

The building arises with two volumes in “L” layout around the backyard.  The design looks for the privacy, generating privacy from the street, and opening to the backyard, which organizes the house, looking for the sights and the sunning on the plot.
Díaz and Díaz Arquitectos designed the ground floor with two volumes, differentiating day zone and night area.

The access from the street is performed through the link between the bedroom volume and the day zone volume, leading to a hall distributor. Around it, the living room - kitchen space arises on the West side, and a bathroom, office, garage, installation and storage space appear on the East side.
 

Project description by Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos

This semi-basement and ground floor house is located in A Coruña. It is implanted on the site considering the previous situation of the plot of land, and solving the different orientations of the volumes.

The landscape and siting of the different volumes with the slopes of the plot of land, becomes a key factor in this project.

According to this, several masonry stone platforms arise. Over them, the volumes sit with a zinc coating.

The building is planned with a wheeled and pedestrian access from the street parallel to the volumes.

The project design looks for the privacy, generating privacy from the street, and opening to the backyard, which organizes the house, looking for the sights and the sun path on the plot of land.

The ground floor consists of two volumes, differentiating day zone and night area.

The building arises with two volumes in “L” layout around the backyard. The house consists on a semi-basement, for the garage and storage space.

The volume dedicated to the day zone includes the living room, the dining room and the kitchen. And also a pantry, a cleaning room and a toilet.

The other volume is destined to the different bedrooms, with their own bathrooms, and a studio area. Next to it, are located the stairs to the semi basement.

The building sits around a backyard, limited by the bedroom core volume, the living room and kitchen area, and a zone of exterior terraces and swimming pool, located on the Southwest border of the plot of land.

The access from the street is performed through the link between the bedroom volume and the day zone volume, leading to a hall distributor. Around it, the living room - kitchen space arises on the West side, and a bathroom, office, garage, installation and storage space appear on the East side.

The house closes itself to the Southeast views, gaining privacy, and it is opened to the Northeast to enjoy the seaside sights. In the Southwest zone, an outside terrace and swimming pool is sit, benefiting from maximum light and warm.

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Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos. Architects.- Lucas Díaz Sierra, Gustavo Díaz García.
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Architect.- Pablo Mera Montecelos. Structures.- STADD projects. Quantity surveyor.- Pablo Sanjurjo Morodo.




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Desarrolla S.L.
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650 m²
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2019
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Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos SLP, is a Galician architecture studio directed by the architects Gustavo Díaz García (1952) ETSAM (1978) and Lucas Díaz Sierra (1974) ETSAB (2000), with open offices in A Coruña and Madrid. It has a large team of collaborating architects of various nationalities. They have received awards in the various fields of their activity: New Construction, Rehabilitation, Urban Planning and Interior Design.

They have been invited to participate in courses, conferences and conferences: Superior Technical Schools of Architecture of A Coruña, Barcelona, ​​Camilo José Cela University and University College of Dublin, Associations of Architects of Galicia, Madrid and Barcelona, ​​College of Quantity Surveyors of Madrid, Ministry of Education, House of UNESCO in Paris, House of Galicia in Madrid, Institute of Architecture of San Francisco, Pecha Kucha Night, etc.

Gustavo Díaz García, Graduate of the Madrid Superior Technical School of Architecture (1978). Doctoral courses (1980-1983). Technical seminars on environmental quality in educational institutions, Ministry of Education and Science, Madrid (1983).

Lucas Díaz Sierra, Graduate of the Barcelona Superior Technical School of Architecture (2000). Architecture course at Saint Louis University. Landscape and Urban Planning and Interior Design courses at Berkeley University. Organic and Ecological Architecture courses at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture. Higher Level Course at Leeds Metropolitan University.
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Published on: February 4, 2020
Cite: "Looking west. Family house AG by Díaz y Díaz Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/looking-west-family-house-ag-diaz-y-diaz-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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