Alventosa Morell Arquitectes designed a house with a concrete structural system and wooden enclosures, which allows them to reduce the thickness of the walls to make the most of the useful square meters of the house. The building has a modulation that facilitates a warm entrance of light and a simple visual connection of the interior spaces with the exterior, with openings designed to frame the surrounding pine forest.
Based on a bioclimatic concept based on solar capture, with a compact and asymmetrical form, the house, with a cork façade that functions as an envelope and characterizes its image, manages to create multipurpose spaces of great comfort, organized in height according to its degrees of privacy.
CG House by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes. Photograph by Adrià Goula.
Project description by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes
CG House was designed for a couple looking for a change. The clients previously lived in a large house and wanted to build a smaller home that would be suitable for two people. Clad entirely in cork, CG House blends into its surroundings while being thermally efficient and making the most of a modest budget.
We designed a compact house with a rectangular floor plan and asymmetrical roof. This allowed us to gain square footage for a multipurpose space at a lower cost by increasing the height of only half the house to accommodate a mezzanine. On the ground floor, the kitchen, living room and dining room are grouped together in an open space with windows on three sides. A bedroom and bathroom are located on a more intimate scale below the mezzanine.
Inside, the concrete structure is attenuated by the wooden enclosures, which allowed us to reduce the thickness of the walls to make the most of the usable square footage of the home. From the outside, the CG House blends with the tones of the surrounding pine forest thanks to its cork cladding, which increases the thermal inertia of the house.
