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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

360 House : By Subarquitectura

Galapagar, Spain
Subarquitectura
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
A unique opportunity for us is in reality a problem that’s been posed thousands of times: to construct a house with a public programme of social relation, associated with the private life of a numerous family on a sloping plot of land with privileged views of the mountains outside Madrid. It has no one solution, there are many, they’re even catalogued in books about houses of a slope.
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz

Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
We try not to think of domestic spaces. On the contrary, we take as a point of reference works of engineering, motorway intersections, changes of direction. We proceed from generic solutions to the problem of descending, solutions that conceal great plasticity. We seek the poetic in all that seems to have been considered from the merely pragmatic point of view
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz

Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
The result is the literal construction of a use diagram. In this instance, form does not follow function, but is instead function itself. Cyclical movement, routine and surprise turn into a way of living.
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz

Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
Its formal complexity offers the possibility of reaching all points of the house through two different routes, which multiply the possibilities of use and enjoyment. It has the form of a loop, 360º, like the shapes skaters make, like of gymnasts, as artistic as they are precise.
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
An extreme shape, the house is curved, generating the greatest quantity of linear meters towards the good views. It is shored up in the landscape and turns back on itself, completing the revolution. The degree of intimacy increases as the distance to the ends increases. At the midpoint, a mediatheque, isolated and completely dark, 100 % technology, 0 % landscape.
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
With a single gesture two ways of moving are generated: going down and looking outwards. The long house, a sinuous movement, a descent by ramp and ample turning radii tangential to the setbacks of the plot of land generate a panoramic vision. The short house, the quick way in a straight line, stairs of direct descent and a deep view towards the landscape.
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
A building that is black outside, absorbent, of slate, a material specific to the location, imposed as an aesthetic specification of the area. White inside, reflective, generic, neutral, and luminous. Life incorporates colour, outside with the vegetation and inside with the people.
Photo © Courtesy of David Frutos Ruiz
site plan--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura

floor plan--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura

elevation--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura

section--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura

aso diagram--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura

model--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura

model--drawing Courtesy of Subarquitectura
The people
Architects: Subarquitectura
Location: Galapagar, Madrid, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: David Frutos 
via:contempopist


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