丨西班牙丨SEA Arquitectos

Architects:SEA Arquitectos

Area:298m²

Year:2020

Photographs:Héctor Santos Díez

Category:Houses

Architect:Carlos Graña

City:Feans

Country:Spain

Text description provided by the architects. We find ourselves in a rather secluded place at the end of a quiet street in the town of Feáns, A Coruña. It is a building limit, so the surroundings of the house are primarily wooded with views of the city.

The house opens with a framed view towards the urban landscape of Coruña, but fundamentally towards the sun and nature. The interior-exterior boundary is resolved gradually through voids in the volume. We create a filter of walls that generate a space prior to the exterior from the day area, facilitating a more intimate atmosphere for the inhabitant.

The house is massive, timeless, and contained. We seek a clear sense of protection for the inhabitants with a material that faces the exterior and contrasts with the warm interior.

The materiality of the walls continues throughout the roof, creating a volume whose texture gradually softens towards the interior with a hint of almost textile concrete. We find it very interesting to see the nature of the material, to show its composition as each voussoir of an arch would. This concrete has dark aggregates with green and white hues that attempt to create a relationship with the natural environment, as well as give a more human scale to the whole. Time will age the house and give it a patina similar to traditional stone houses.

Within the protection that this primitive architecture provides, we seek other basic and pleasant sensations in human beings, such as the light that falls from above in the day area. The zenithal light marks the intersection of the cardinal axes of the house. This point divides the dwelling between the different privacy zones and receives light from all orientations. We want to create an intimate space and, at the same time, an exterior space.

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