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“It couldn’t have been much different in Ur 5,000 years ago: the same painstakingly created bricks … the same spaces around a courtyard, the same walls, the same transition from light to dark, the same cold after heat, the same same starry nights, same fears, same dreams …” —Aldo van Eyck

The house is located in an urbanization on the outskirts of Salou that is articulated around the Archaeological Park of Villa Romana de Barenys, a building from the 1st century BC. destined to the production of ceramics for the construction and the elaboration of amphorae, used to export Tarragona wine to different parts of the Empire.

▼项目概览，general view ©Adrià Goula

▼轴测图，axonometric drawing ©NUA arquitectures

A single action can explain the house: closing oneself to the closest environment, a generic place without many attributes, and founding an intimate and pleasant habitable place for María José, a woman with Andalusian roots who wants to enjoy her recent retirement in a new house that transport her to the inhabited spaces of her childhood. In continuity with the culture of the patios and the way of living in Mediterranean climates, recovering the latent memory of the Roman villas that articulated the agricultural territory of the Ager Tarraconensis around the Roman Salauris, a city known for its strategic port, and with the With the intention of evoking the childhood experiences of Maria José among the vegetal shadows, the pools and the orange trees of the Andalusian patios, a patio house is proposed, an introspective house that welcomes an oasis inside. The house is articulated through a single fluid space on the ground floor that gravitates around an atrium, the central room of the house, and the project focuses on the timeless exploration of living between the interior and the exterior, between the dark and the bright, between uncertainty and security. Ceramics, a material used historically in the city from Roman times until the appearance of the first modernist summer houses at the beginning of the 20th century, is the chosen construction material.

▼庭院，courtyard ©Adrià Goula