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The desire to generate unexpected domestic spaces and provoke new ways of life within a dense urban fabric is the main motivation behind this project. A sequence of courtyards permeates the architecture and becomes its organizing structure.
A first welcoming courtyard serves as an anteroom between the street and the domestic sphere, ensuring privacy, silence, and well-being.
Multiple and flexible work and living spaces coexist on the ground floor. Without walls or partitions, these are defined by the unique presence of each of the courtyards. A central interior space reconciles the daily activity of the ground floor with what happens around the rest areas on the upper floor.
A direct relationship with the desired exteriors is sought. These allow the entry of light, air, and sunlight, as well as contact with vegetation and natural soils. Mobile vertical facades and horizontal protective surfaces collaborate in the appropriation of the exterior spaces, into which domestic activity extends according to the needs of the inhabitants and the environmental conditions.
The architecture, intentionally small in scale, unfolds in the depth of the plot. At the inner edge of the plot, a work and seclusion pavilion becomes an observatory of domestic activity.
The volumetric fragmentation of massive elements, emphasized by sloping stone roofs that shed water into the courtyards, recovers the imagery of vernacular living and production spaces.
A unique materiality of exposed white concrete, formed with wooden slats, provides both structure and tactile texture, both inside and outside the home.
