Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain
A-cero
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its latest works about a big
single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of
Madrid on a 5000m2 plot. It is a single storey building and it has a 1.600 m2 built surface.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
The first sensation that this house produces when people go into the plot is that the building seems to be hidden between
concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. They are dyed in dark gray and contain, between them, vegetation areas that seem to climb towards the sky. The house´s façade show a spectacular organic view of the whole house and so even the hard concrete shows its most kind face.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
The back front of the house is totally opened towards the garden where the lounge, dining room, library, study and bedrooms are. In this façade the wide windows, the volumes set and the projections (made of concrete too enhance. These elements cover the several house´s porches. The large window of the main lounge hides itself automatically in order to make this stay completely opened to the exterior areas.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
The plot includes also an elegant garden, a small lake and a pádel track.
The ecological aspect is very in this A-cero´s work: the façade and the roof have the main ecological roles because they are covered with low consume vegetation. Furthermore on the house´s roof has been implemented a renewable energy system made of wide surfaces with solar tubular collectors who allow that the energy autonomy of the house.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Luis H. Segovia |
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| ground floor plan--drawing Courtesy of A-cero |
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| second floor plan--drawing Courtesy of A-cero |
The people
Architects: A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects
Location: Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain
Partner in Charge: Rafael Llamazares
Contractor: Helio Construcciones
Interiors: A-cero
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Luis H. Segovia
via:archdaily/contemporist
