LA CASA

UPM (2021)

The island’s constructed area is composed of long-rectangular solars in which small and bad organized houses were constructed many years ago. The project consists of a reform of one of those solars.

My solar is located in a privileged place of the island, being the protagonist of the west view of the coast. Being so representative and presiding over a public space, the house subordinates a part of its plot to public use on the ground floor.

The main wall aims to hide what happens inside, opening few gaps that do not express what is hidden behind them and that try to attenuate the powerful light from the west.

West section

East section

North elevation

South elevation

South section

The game of the empty space generates terraces with views to the sea, all of them subordinate to the central one, where a pool is located flush with the hole from which to contemplate the sunset.

The house is distributed over three floors, although the game of heights and slopes makes it difficult to describe it as such. The interior seeks to be impressive. A monumental stair crowns the southern wall of the house, organizing the space as in the Balearic houses and generating a series of sensations in those who contemplate it.

Concrete is the material chosen, thanks to its materiality, versatility and roundness. The project plays with the incidence of light and the position of the openings, since the elongated dimensions and between party walls make interior lighting difficult.