The assignment consisted in the construction of a guest pavilion as an extension of the main house. Our first thought was to create a shape clear and simple, a cuboid placed in the middle of the forest, changing as less as possible the surrounding characteristics, as if it had always been there.
After the initial ideas, we did a deep reflection between what the Concretus house should be on its own, and what it would be because of the place in which it’s framed, an impressive natural landscape facing the sea with a balcony looking over the Mediterranean.
The starting point is an easily reconciled oxymoron: a dark attic penthouse located in a busy part of Barcelona that desired a much more open and active internal transit. And above all… tons of light.
The duplex penthouse renovation was designed by Estudio Pedro Feduchi, a small studio specialized in design houses and directed by the architects Pedro Feduchi Canosa and Juan Gimeno Ramallo. In their study located in the center of Madrid (Spain), the projects are slowly conceived …
The Barrio de San Gabriel is undergoing urban transformations. In this street has been constructed San Gabriel house that bets to promote the life of neighborhood, unlike the new multi-family blocks.
This recreational retreat is built on an old majada, as stone sheds are known in the Sierra de Aracena, auxiliary buildings that serve as pantry, chicken coop or for storing implements. It is for this reason that they are usually located on the edge of villages, closer to the rich orchards, like those bordering Cortelazor.
This catalan house is inspired by the old farm buildings that they used to appear outskirts the historical cities centre. The idea starts from the colocation of a principal volume that would include the public spaces of the house and the other smaller volumes contain the private ones.
This building is located on a plot of 4000 m2 with the purpose of becoming the focus of main activity of housing in the summer months. For this, a summer pavilion is created totally open to the garden as a continuity of this one.
