asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
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Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro
The house is a conscious exercise in developing an alternative domestic environment to the surrounding villas of the new suburban neighborhood. The solutions for the development so far have typically been compact villas located on abruptly leveled gardens, irrespective of the complex topographical condition of their sites.
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Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro Our ambition for producing an alternative domestic atmosphere is developed by constructing a more explicit relationship between the house and garden with the existing conditions of the steep site. This organizational strategy for the house sought to register the difference in topography within the parcel by organizing a series of terraces that configure the framework for a landscape with differentiated characters.
Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro
Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro
This deliberate geometric configuration affords multiple readings of the outline of the house while facilitating a rich experiential lifestyle within its volume and landscape. Specific organizational and material strategies were developed to produce different volumetric and perceptual readings that change with the different vantage points towards and within the house.
Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro
Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro
The building is organized in three bands that are arranged around a central circulation core. These three bands maintain a prevailing orientation in the northeast-southwest direction to secure maximum daylight in every room. While the bands configure and organize the different rooms, the circulation core underpins a switchback pattern of shifting orientations with the gradual vertical movement through the house.
Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo LoureiroThe house is clad in dark “composite” panels that have been customized with digital fabrication techniques. These customized panels are used to articulate sections of the house volume in order to introduce legibility to the overall form. These panels offer a range of different surface consistencies and patterns to the house that reflect the sites changing light conditions in multiple ways, producing an ever changing range of texture and tones.
Photo © Courtesy of Ricardo Loureiro
site plan--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
floor plans--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
east elevation--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
north elevation--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
south elevation--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
west elevation--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
section 01--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
section 02--drawing Courtesy of asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre AldazThe people
Project: Q-house
Architects: asensio_mah & J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
Team credits: Diego Repiso, Kaizen Chen, Jennifer Chuong, Jon Aguirre
Location: North of Spain.
Date: 2005-2009
Completion date: May 2009
Character: Residential
Detail design: with Jose M. Aguirre Aldaz
Site works: with Satie Arquitectos s.l
Structure: Eguitur s.l.
M&E: Jose Luis Larumbe
Q.Surveyor: Leire Badiola
Photographs: © Ricardo Loureiro
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