The client in this project in particular was insistent on one thing alone: that a space with three rooms plus a living room for the family be built on only 80 square meters.

This is typically a rest house where visitors are constantly being received at weekends, so this was the reason for having an ample space for reunions and the need for two bathrooms.

In order to confront this challenge, a strategy was followed that would give rise to a central area that housed an open and empty patio, plus a bathroom for the visitors, and so function as a contained area screening off the common areas from the rooms.

From a frontal viewpoint, the house's public areas are totally permeable, whilst the private ones are horizontally impermeable.

The areas devoted to the family dining and living rooms were thought out in open-plan fashion, which, in winter, would receive guests and family alike as the only space for encountering each other. In summer, a wide terrace is attached to this place, which is also a meeting area and which acts as a corridor of fresh air.

Also in response to this house's position, in an east-west direction and seeking a climatic solution, the corridor onto which the rooms flow, is facing east, acting as a filter for the bedrooms.

This project, in its timber version, generates two openings at its ends, thus forming a triangle. This particular point is aimed at capturing the morning light, especially the south opening/triangle.

Wood Option

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Steel Option

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