Villa Of The Nine Porticoes
Location: Castilleja de la Cuesta, Seville, Spain
Architect: Sol89 architects
Material: Concrete
Completion date: 2022
Studi: Sol89 architects
Architects: María González, Juanjo López de la Cruz
Architecture student Collaborators: Javier Valenzuela, Miriam Domínguez
Structure: Duarte and Asociados
Construction Company: Meta360
Photographer: Fernando Alda
Story:
Text provided by the architects:
Gemma and Álvaro decide to build their first house after decades living in Belgium with the memory of their life in Catalonia and Asturias always present. They return to Andalusia, where he studied, seeking the life of a bright, peaceful southern town, close to Seville, where they can meet up again with a mutual friend.
They acquire a 5x30 meter plot with a single facade facing almost north on the main street. The site is narrow and long, the result of the agricultural subdivisions that allowed the coexistence of the house with some building destined to the collection of farming tools or corrals. The program to be developed is modest, just a couple of bedrooms and some particularity, such as a room where both can enjoy a sauna, a place where Gemma can make prints and where she can have a small outdoor kitchen. They expect visits from friends and family from time to time whom they would like to host. They carry objects, books and paintings, traces of a lifetime, they also carry with them memories of having lived in intense places whose experience they would like to recover: a well and a tree, a patio, the southern light.
The proportions of the site and the agricultural memory of these plots suggest generating a space by repeating equidistant porticoes, which define bays that are built on one or two floors or are hollowed out to generate patios, providing a continuous space that nuances its environmental characteristics. and functional. In this way, a sequence is created based on a first reception patio that clarifies the relationship with the street, then three bays that house the house, one more bay of which only the structure remains to formalize a shaded porch as a canopy. , two corridors that make up the patio to the south (rather a hortus conclusus) and a final volume that finishes off the site as a pavilion where you can paint and cook with friends, whose roof, lower than the rest of the house, is planted with species bushy,
The metallic construction of this structure and the almagra color, typical of the first paintings that once protected the steel, rhythm the space and configure a continuous reference. The standard frame sets the supports back from the dividing walls to avoid conflicts with the neighboring houses with load-bearing walls, and the resulting space between this structural line and the longitudinal boundaries is occupied by the equipment, the technical spaces and the storage of the house. creating two unequal lateral bands that thicken the limits of the house. Through the opening of the house at the ends to two courtyards located to the north and south, a series of fans installed in each bay and a natural ventilation chimney located on the side of the middle bay, a cross breeze is achieved in all the stays that,
The house is shown to the street as a massive white construction, an imitation of the first constructions of Castilleja that have been lost replaced by colors and materials typical of the more commercial and immediate construction industry. A cornice-visor, a frieze, a balcony that extends over the street, the openwork wall and the door shutter from which to glimpse the patio-hall establish a syntax that refers to elements of popular architecture that facilitate the encounter between the private and public and help build the street.
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