Toboggan House by Z4Z4

This house was designed as if two separate entities treated. A functional housing, buried and other light flying over the previous one.

The architectural studio Z4Z4 is responsible for this original project generously sized. The common use of housing arranged longitudinally confined between two concrete walls in a north-south orientation. Flying over this part three drying cylinders have inside 5 rooms, rooms whose skin is made of translucent layers with mirrors.

Description of the proyect by Z 4Z4

A family looking for a new home that can represent their trips around the globe, his desire to live in a garden and cinematic diversity of domestic life. Two houses on the same plot are resolved:

The House Toboggan is a generic three-storey house on a southern slope. The project juxtaposes two houses and an empty housing the parking, entrance and two staircases, functions as a thermal regulator and build a "traveling" between a garden, a follie and a picturesque grotto while stays lounge, fitness center cross - sauna, bar, dining room and kitchen.

A house is organized to inhabit the dry land, customs and recipes. The other, made lightly, emancipates the ground and stays in the air flying over the garden double height. They are totally different in materiality, shape and weight. The largest space interest group is heterogeneous, ambiguous and membranous space that appears between the two houses. The scenic burden of this space is via exposure of domestic life that circulates between plants. The ground floor is contained between two long concrete walls. These walls cut the ground below ground to accommodate two 'conventional and modern "prisms connected by a corridor surrounding the empty stage - greenhouse. In the South there is a garden for "Good Life" and North lurks the "grotesque Garden"; in the middle is the promising greenhouse double height.

This sequence gardens along the plot, a smooth surface at ground level let nature crossing back and forth on the floor slab and the car flow to the bottom passing over the kitchen. The upper floor is formed by wrapping with corrugated iron curtains, air, mirror, and three tangent empty cylinders. Inside the cylinders is the "super-inside" that offers total privacy to 9 rooms padded wood, cotton, linen and silk, surrounded by "souvenirs".

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Exterior view pool. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Exterior view balcony. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Exterior view facade. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Exterior view inner yard. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Inside view yard. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Inside view living. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Inside view main bedroom. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Inside view bath. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Inside view corridor. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Inside view spiral. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Exterior view at night. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Exterior view. Toboggan House by Z4Z4. Photography courtesy of Imagen Subliminal © Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Basement floor plan. Toboggan House by Z4Z4.

Entrance floor plan. Toboggan House by Z4Z4.

First floor plan. Toboggan House by Z4Z4.

axonometric exploited. Toboggan House by Z4Z4.

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Architect

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Rafael Beneytez.

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MLP, RL.

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Victor M Cano, Rafael Beneytez, Ophelia Mantz.

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Borja Iglesias, Santiago Ibañez.

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Contractor

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Ars Tectónica, Mario Navarro.

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Structure

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Juan Carlos Arroyo.

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512 sqm.

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Jimena Menéndez Pidal St. 22, Aravaca, Madrid, Spain.

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2015.

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Imagen Subliminal. Miguel de Guzmán y Rocío Romero.

Rafael Beneytez Durán. Z4Z4

Rafael Beneytez Durán, (1972) has an architecture degree from the ETSAM, (Architecture School of Madrid), was proposed for an extraordinary final year project prize, and is currently running Z4Z4 AAA (Architects Activities Associates), an architecture practice based in Madrid that defines itself as a productive design unit. He has worked with renowned architect Rafael Moneo Vallés as project manager from 1997 to 2007. He is currently associate lecturer for the architectural projects department and is collaborator for the Advanced Architectural Projects Master’s Degree at the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM). He also teaches in the Architectural Project Design Department and has led the Aesthetics and Architectural Composition Department from 2009 to 2012 at the Architecture and Technology School (ESAyT).

He is currently developing his PhD “Atmospheres” at the DPA department of the ETSAM. He has been visiting lecturer at Würzburg University, Germany, as well as the VI Architecture Workshop for the Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, associate lecturer with Blanca Lleó for the Post-grad Master degree at ETSAB University and visiting lecturer at El Vallés Architecture School and jury at Harvard GSD for Career Discovery 2002.

His work has been recognised and awarded at the 2011 XI Spanish Architecture and Urban Design Biennale. He has also been awarded with the first prize for the Huesca Congress Hall, the Castilla y Leon Pavilion for the 2008 Zaragoza Exposition, Baghdad Olympic City, third prize for the Leganés Sports Management Centre, Special Mention for the Taboadella Europan 10, First Mention for the Herrera del Duque Tourism Hospice and Mention for the Castuera Tourism Hospice. His work has been selected for several exhibitions such as the FUCOAM gallery, the 2010 Hay Festival, the 2006 and 2008 Huesca CCM, La Casa de los Picos 2010, Fachhochschule Münster (2002), Fachhochschule Würzburg (2001), Cáceres Congress Hall (2010 y 2011) or the Magda Bellotti Art Gallery (2002). At present, he is developing a project for the abstraction of atmospheric water for Fuerteventura and Atacama, and is member of the Cultural Landscape Investigation Group at ETSAM.

Published on: May 16, 2016

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