Architects:CARPE, CRUX arquitectos

Area :185 m²

Year :2019

Photographs :Milena Villalba

Manufacturers :  SketchUp, Weber, AutoCAD, Finsa, Finstral, PrissmacerSketchUp

Lead Architect :Aitor Deza Atutxa, Alejandro García Pedrón, Raquel Sola Rubio

Structure Calculation : Luis Ros Serrano

Execution Direction : Eulalia Díez Fontestad

Translation : Cristina Villalonga Dobón

Country : Spain

JES House is the story of a project in which the nature of the assignment prevailed over the proposals related to the site. Other factors took over, overpowering the site conditions -environment, orientation, planning- and certain reflections on materiality.  The persistence of the developers led us to leave the location-bound ideas aside, one by one, to meet the sole condition of the assignment: to make a contemporary revision of the family home.

A few hundred meters from JES House, the former family house rises with two bays parallel to the façade, with a central access and rooms on the left and on the right. It is indeed inspired on the family’s first house located in the historic centre of Rafelbunyol. The three of them follow the  scheme of the traditional Valencian house: a housing volume with rooms on both sides of a central corridor, followed by a patio or corral. This is a very common typology in the settlements with an agricultural tradition and has remained unchanged through the early twentieth century and until today.