Description of project by Vázquez Consuegra
The difficulty of intervening in a very uneven, narrow and elongated plot (2.20 m façade) located in the historic center of Seville adds the presence of a metal structure abandoned by the previous owner. Structure composed of floors and pillars that would have to be reused and incorporated into the project, and that responded to a program very different from the one requested for this occasion.
On the other hand, the space located at the end of the plot, theoretically intended as a garden, is surrounded by buildings that far exceed the height of the house, seriously compromising the privacy of this site.
The proposal accepts the complexity of the problems posed, assumes the limitations and constraints imposed by the situation, and extracts its strength from them.
The house assumes the typological organization that characterizes the Sevillian house, that is, the sequence: hallway-patio-stay-garden, looking for transparencies and deep perspectives, but where the hall becomes here, thanks to its condition of filter space with double enclosure (perforated gate and glass door) in an effective and solvent thermal regulator of the house.
The arrangement of the staircase attached to one of the party walls will allow to draw without interruption a long perspective that reaches the garden from the street, where a perimeter system of metallic meshes, arranged in two layers and of great height, will support the climbers, that will transform this patio of neighbors in an authentic orchard, in a small, but intense, hidden garden.
Two large overhangs lead the house into the garden, approaching the poplars planted in front of the vines: one on the first floor, terrace and porch of the summer dining room and another longer and slender on the second floor, houses the staircase that gives access to the roof.
