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- Architects: Gradolí & Sanz
- Location: Benimaclet, València, Valencia, Spain
- Author Architects: Arturo Sanz Martínez, Carmel Gradolí Martínez
- Area: 250.0 m2
- Project Year: 2012
- Photography: Mariela Apollonio
- Constructor: Ensecon S.L.
- Quantity Surveyor: Julia Fernández Sorókina
- Interior Design And Lighting: Carmen González Úbeda
- Plot Surface Area: 140 m2
- Built Up Surface Area: 250 m2
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From the architect. Benimaclet used to be a farming village, an island in a sea of fields ploughed through ditches. With the growth of the city of Valencia, the island was absorbed to turn it into a residential neighbourhood, and inevitably, into an anomaly within the urban fabric. And in this condition it resists, continually more threatened by the city.
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© Mariela Apollonio
The Casa Ricart has been built on a plot in the Historic Centre of the neighbourhood, and its volition is to strengthen the typological features of the traditional courtyard house constructions, still on a smaller scale, so that they become the fulcrum of the residence.
Sketch
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This house is shaped around two courtyards: the first, located in the transition between the living room and kitchen – dining area, is bathed in sunlight and contains an olive tree; the second, of a more private nature, is a protected courtyard with vegetation providing shade.
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© Mariela Apollonio
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