Description of project by Tuñon Arquitectos
Located in Cáceres, the house is a simple prismatic volumen with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three Windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Extremadura granite of warm tones.
Rigorously defined by its outlines, the volume accomodates nine cubic spaces of 4.2-meter sides which serve different domestic uses, from sitting rooms and bedrooms to the kitchen, with the closets and bathrooms placed in between. Each of those spaces comprises two layers: a lower one clad with oakwood boards where the building services are placed; and an upper stratum formed by a through of white concrete and completely free of mechanisms. The rooms open on to the exterior landscape through large oak-framed windows of square proportions. An open platform at the back features a swimming pool.
With its 16-meter sides, the square-plan house contains nine rooms, and is built on the outside with walls of local quartzite stone detailed with granite, and on the inside with white concrete and oakwood claddings.
Remembering some houses of the Portuguese architects Aires Mateus, but especially the Papapanayotou holiday house, from the Greek Aris Konstantinidis, in Anavyssos, from 1961-62, Emilio Tuñon develops this interesting home. Extreme for its radical geometry, for the treatment of light and for the materials used.
The house of Tuñón architects, brings us back to the essential idea of a house, protecting nature by feeling part of it. Generate an anthropized territory without that means the refusal to dialogue with it.
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Published on:
December 11, 2018
Cite: "Stone House by Tuñon Arquitectos" METALOCUS.
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ISSN 1139-6415
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