Three Wise Men Apartment / Diva Arquitectura
Granny Amparo’s house, ‘The house of the three wise men’ is an example of how a house can be much more than just a physical space. It is the experiences lived there what turns it into a home.
Granny Amparo’s house, ‘The house of the three wise men’ is an example of how a house can be much more than just a physical space. It is the experiences lived there what turns it into a home.
In the historic centre of the town of Alcásser this house is located between party walls. Raised with a double exterior facade, it allows the client to meet their expectations in terms of privacy, while maintaining the urban alignments with the neighbourhood.
The Vimarvi architecture studio has taken the lead in this project, which was based on a style of oriental origin, to transform it into a modern, mediterranean home adapted to new demands.
The Yard House born of the place, the reflection and the search of a typological purification. The form is the result of these premises, the creation of two volumes that respond to the simplification of the original home of the village. Is this form, too, that resolves interior ordination.
The project presented here, a temporary rental housing, gives rise to these reflections and concerns due to the multiple links that will occur between inhabitants –temporal- and spaces -producers of intensity-.