The rebuilding achieved by Rocamora Studio of Design and Architecture, with a base of only 6.70 meters, distributes the housing program in 4 levels, being it an extension of the existing dwelling. The plan together with the old structure forms a kind of island surrounded by narrow staircases, which circumscribe the building inside the public space.
Description of the project by Estudio Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura
This small house, with three façades and 4 x 6,70 meters on every floor, is located, between narrow stairs, in El Barrio Antiguo, in the hillsides of Benacantil, Alicante.
This project arises from the desire of Inmaculada for having new housing, near his work, which solves his current needs, and that it allows, even, on the ground floor, to project a mini apartment with autonomy with regard to the main housing, because if one of his sons wants to visit her.
The project appears as a rehabilitation with an extension of the existing housing, which was practically in ruins.
In his interior, the new structure, which is solved with HEB girders and a deck of the sheet, appears undressed and honest, as rails and stairs, finished with a galvanized sheet and metallic tubular rod.
On the ground floor level, every opportunity is studied to be able to build a kitchen, bath, cupboard, bedroom, and lounge-dining room, with a required spatial continuity due to limited space.
The second-floor level is the day zone of the house of Inmaculada: kitchen-dining room-lounge and takes the stairs as the main piece, which develops as a sequence of permeable and metallic steps, interlaced with steel ropes, in the shape of a harp, which do the work of a banister.
On the third floor level, we can find the principal bedroom, study, dressing room, and bath.
On the façade, the perforations are distributed strategically, according to the situation, to illuminate the desk, to use as natural light support to the zone of the sofa, to illuminate intimately the zone of the bath or in case of the cover of the tower, to work as a great skylight which impregnates with light all the house. These holes, strategically studied, works as crossed, hygienic and revitalizing ventilation, circulating the air between his façades north and south.
Towards the street, the aim of these holes is to get different situations: reaching the first beams of the Sun of the East, getting low looks towards the entry of San Roque street, or avoiding sills. Here the holes construct the oblique look, the façade models itself to be able to clear the physical and restricted situation that comes imposed by his urban configuration.
The tiled vase and the formal image with continuous holes, perforated in the façade, protected with latticeworks of metallic stuck-up, permeable sheet, a mediating image awards between the local tradition and the vocation firmly contemporary of the house The Castling and of his owner, Inmaculada.
