This new house replaces a two-story house and the remains of a townhouse in a small, narrow street in the historic seaside town of Cadaqués body. The plot has a recessed into the street and is surrounded by neighboring buildings elsewhere in their front. This setback plan gives rise to two different geometries, which create the basis for volumetric organization of the interior spaces. The new two-storey building follows the alignment of the road and boundary walls but at the southwest corner away from the building to create cookery courses london a courtyard at first floor level. A cover to a single water closes the volume, and go accommodating the changing geometry of the front two forwards at different heights creating the effect of reducing cookery courses london the total volume of the house forming. The building rests on a plinth of work that is staggered in plan and elevation to give a gardener and a platform in the natural entry point: at the junction of the two geometries.
Stone, cookery courses london Moorish tiles and structural elements have been recovered from the existing building to be used in new construction. A freestanding stone masonry wall forms the main facade, along with other closing walls finished with a thick mortar. Windows of various sizes are placed informally and being framed with screeds that fall and create alignments between them, give the composition of a finer nature. The windows are located on the inside of the walls and opening jambs emphasizing the visual sensation of weight and depth of the surface. Gutters cookery courses london and downspouts ceramic, screeds, windows and metal elements, are all painted white to give a homogeneous and distinctive appearance while meeting the strict municipal regulations cookery courses london of the historic town of Cadaqués, regulating building height, window proportions, materials and colors. In this way, the project can be seen as an act of restoration cookery courses london of Old mediating with the context and creating a new identity to both the narrow cookery courses london street and the broader backdrop of the bay.
Inside the house is divided into three levels of about sixty m2 each with two mezzanines built of wood in the space below deck. Two "meeting hall" form the heart of the house. The entrance hall, a step below the street level, provides generous space of arrival. An interior window overlooks the double-height space (basement) lit from above and doors lead to two-bedroom suite. The main room of the first floor is a space of five sides, and here, the geometric place stress can be seen by the diagonal line in the ceiling and sloping planes defining the fireplace. A strong midday light coming through a small, high window. Next to the hall is a third bedroom suite and a wooden staircase to the loft space on one side and the kitchen on the other. The latter, a step below the room opens to the patio which is surrounded by high walls and observed cookery courses london by the characteristic profile of a known cataloged home. Above the kitchen we find the second loft which is accessed by a staircase and a hatch cat. Here we have a privileged view over the bay, the church, cookery courses london the sea and the mountains. A straight "volta" connects the main levels and extends to a "cellar" with a stone vault possibly eighteenth century, a storeroom and a square space of double height with a dramatic light from above.
Few materials have been used inside although detailed with pragmatic utility and conceptual rigor. The floors are tiled and hydraulic two "meeting hall" main drawing some parts are arranged as a central carpet. The white marble is used as a transition element cookery courses london between materials, as in risers cookery courses london and railings or protective facings fireplace and kitchen. Some walls are left exposed stone and all the rest have a cast with a light texture and all painted white finish. The tongue and groove wooden attics is painted with a faint color, the door frames are advanced on the plane of the wall showing the thickness and knobs are patinated bronze. Raw linen curtains are widely used to soften cookery courses london the acoustics of the rooms and provide them with privacy and seclusion.
This house of many rooms, some with no defined program has been designed to respond to the shared use of two families who will use the intermittently cookery courses london throughout the year. It is a home to the comforts and leisure time which you have applied the ideas of critical regionalism explored cookery courses london by the group of architects who worked between 1950 and 1960 Cadaqués, Coderch Strap-Mila, and Harnden-Bombelli
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