Asturias, Spain
Zon-e Arquitectos
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
The purpose of the project was to design and build state
subsidized housing in
Cerredo (Asturias), a
mining town located in the very heart of the
Cantabrian Mountains, where no residential construction had been made for over 25 years.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
The project had two stages that materialized in two perpendicular buildings forming an L shape. In the first stage we undertook the biggest building, which faces the road that crosses the town.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
The volumetric we propose has an angular shape. It is a geometry crystallized from some elementary laws that are given by the
town-planning regulations. The formal result is something halfway between a petrified object, a mountain’s shape and a disturbing organism floating over the mountainside.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
This “crystallographic” object has the same dark color as the local slate. Like a piece of coal, it absorbs almost all the light it gets and reflects a small amount of it, calmly showing us its rich geometry.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
The building’s unity contrasts with the individuality of each of the 15 apartments that show through some galleries in the facade. These are cubes which drill the volume using a herringbone pattern and work as heat and light exchangers.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
Each of the apartments is different in size, floor plan distribution, location of its gallery and in its roof’s configuration. All of them enjoy cross ventilation and breathtaking views of Asturias’ craggy landscape.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
The project’s nature as object is emphasized by the way the ground floor is approached: this has been set back along its perimeter, reinforcing the idea of a “floating body.”
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz |
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| site plan--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| floor plans--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| elevations--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| floor plan--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| section detail--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| terrace schemes--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| axo--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| axo--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| model photo--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| model photo--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| model photo--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
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| model photo--drawing © Courtesy of Zon-e Arquitectos |
The people
Architects: Zon-e Arquitectos / Nacho Ruiz Allén, José Antonio Ruiz Esquiroz
Location: Asturias, Spain
Project Area: 2,385 sqm
Photographs: Ignacio Martinez and Jose Antonio Ruiz
Note>>Location in this map, It could indicate city/country but not exact address.
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