The house is located on a plot, not very large. This situation invites to compact the house on one side, continuing the alignment of the street façade while maximizing the patio with good solar exposure.
The house occupies a corner plot. For this reason, instead of adopting the usual uni-directional organization (street-patio), of houses between medians, the proposal is organized in two perpendicular directions. The house does not have a dominant direction. The house wants to look in all directions.
The structure is resolved with load-bearing walls arranged in a swastika form. The structure also does not have a dominant direction. The structure configures the space.
Aiming for the wall structure to be the protagonist of the space, services are placed in the perimeter, forming a thick façade, liberating the centre of the plan and allowing for visual and use relations between the rooms.
The habitable sctructure coincides with the bearing walls structure. In these walls exterior windows are opened facing the street as well as interior windows facing the other rooms. There is no difference between them.
The materialization of these walls will be fundamental in the construction process. A small building of bearing walls in marés, a local sandstone, already existed in the plot. Common sense leads us to reuse these pieces. The strategy is already served.
During the work process it is decided to reuse the marés. By handling and rearranging it, the work of the craftsman who years ago chiseled the grooves of the ancient abeuradors increases in value. These grooves were the space in which the mortar grout was poured to join the pieces together, nowadays the auberadors aren’t necessary anymore.
Now they will provide texture and character to Can Jordi i n’África’s façade, a texture which through the years will absorb the patina added by time. The old pieces of marés, because of their quantity, are combined with new pieces. The new pieces, brought from the same quarry as te old ones, are used in the points were we need to define the work with higher detail: window frames, roof finishings, etc.
Thus the building is implanted in the site through reading the environment and understanding the material and its construction.
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Addiction is a medical condition, and is characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences. This is the definition from Wikipedia. Even if the definition is pretty simple, addiction is a very complex problem. However, rest assured, a lot of people that have an addictive personality never get addicted to anything.
You must know, that addiction can be treated with professional help. But that’s not the subject here. This is a quick, fun quiz, for entertainment purposes only.
Let’s take it now, and hope that our answer is chocolate!
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Caddo Lake – Texas – USA (by Drriss & Marrionn)
Ahh, the neverending struggle between architects and their plotters. We’ve all been there. And these problems always happen when there’s a looming deadline. Still, we’ll take it over going back to manual drafting, right?
The relationship we have with our plotters is a complicated one. Between CAD and plotters, the production part of our job as architects is much easier than it was, even just 10 years ago. We still have plenty to complain about though, as the characters in Architexts demonstrate. If you have your own similar experiences, we’d love to hear from you for our next book project, Architects, LOL.
💙 Forest Light on 500px by Jeff Pudlinski, Litchfield, United… http://ift.tt/1QMfnn5
Pepper House is a mixed-used residential and office project designed by GEMA in 2016. It is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Pepper House by GEMA: “Vietnam is a rapidly developing country with dramatic changes in economic, social and numerous other sectors. In 2015 alone, the country has generated more than 97,000 startup enterprises, most of which are focused in the thriving Ho Chi Minh City. Along with the..
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