The houses take on a landscape value, standing out among their adjoining ones for their texture and polished white color that invites you to look inside through its lattice panels that connect the exterior to its patios through light and ventilation but without leaving aside from the privacy of your stays.
Description of project by Antonio Holgado Gómez
A total of 5 homes were to be designed on two nearby lots, these being of different morphology, with topographic unevenness of up to 4 meters at their ends, bordering buildings on their party walls, and alignments to several streets. Due to their nature of public development, the dwellings should have a limited area of 80 m² useful and, as far as possible, that some were developed on a single floor, as well as have sloping roofs, as well as other regulations, varied normative repertoire.
The differences in heights so pronounced would give us relevant jumps between the dwellings, so it was clear the intention to unify and cushion these “jumps” with a common envelope of the building complex, considering this as unique and not as a sum of several repeating elements, so common in townhouses. It was intended that both the sloping roofs and the facades would act as a single envelope, using the same color for their textures (if my memory of the houses in the towns of Badajoz had to be defined with a color, it is white).
The houses, as they cannot be otherwise in this environment, have an interior patio, which is conceived as a living and private element towards which most of the rooms on the ground floor turn. It could almost be said that the view to the outside of the public road is of no interest and that its openings are designed in many cases, solely to guarantee cross ventilation with the patios.
To obtain, on the one hand, the privacy of the ground floor rooms and, on the other, give greater relevance and emphatics to the white texture, a succession of lattice panels integrated into the enclosure is conceived behind which different openings.
The peculiarity of having two lots with alignments each of them to different streets, allows us to have different perspectives of the buildings and integrate them into the different urban scenographies of which they are part, preserving a common compositional language throughout the project.
