1996. Urban House for Artists

ARTISTS' HOUSE & STUDIO rafaelguirigayaparicio URBAN HOUSING - WORKSHOP

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architecture/ interior design + fit out/ urban planning/ management

After the introductory course, where the approach to architecture, through forms, light, displacement, etc., and the focus was set on the first tools of the architectural exercise, this time the approach is made to one of the most basic use for the right understanding of the profession: the residential housing use.

street elevation - day

street elevation - night

street elevation

ARTISTS COUPLE'S HOUSE+STUDIO FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER AND A MUSICIAN - URBAN HOUSING - WORKSHOP

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In addition, as a design premise and to explore the possibilities of spaces that require specific responses, it is defined that the house will also be a workshop for a couple of artists. In this case, each artist with special needs: a musician and a photographer where chosen.

photographer's studio and musician's platform

musician's desktop

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section d-d'

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The house, located in a fictitious urban context with buildings between 1 and two stories high, is developed on a dividing plot of 192.00 m² (8 x 24m).

street view

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roof plan

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To schematize the distribution, two premises are followed. On the one hand, define the workshop / study spaces, next to the street, and in the background, the couple's home, enjoying the intimacy and isolation of street life. Between these 2 areas a transitional space was defined and a small relaxation pond was located, in front of the dining area and a connection bridge between the workshop and the house itself.

house's staircase

connection bridge

section a-a'

section b-b'

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section c-c'

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This corridor / bridge that crosses the plot in a transversal direction and that leads to a small green backyard, is the vertebral axis of the spaces from the street to the bottom of the lot.

The two green and humid spaces, open to the sky, allow ventilation and natural lighting of all the spaces, generating in turn a pause that cuts the longitudinally of the plot.

backyard

pond patio

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section e-e'

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The composition of the plan in the longitudinal direction in turn divides the plot into 3 strips of different thicknesses: In the narrowest, the middle one, circulation axis leds to the middle size strip where are some of the service areas, such as the dining room, the kitchen on the ground floor; and a small open music classroom, facing the street and an auxiliary room at the back. Vertical circulations, one public stain in the street and one private staircase for the house are also found here.

living room

kitchen & laundry

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±0,00 Courtesy Toilet

Dinning Room

Corridor

Entry

Kintchen & Laundry

±0,00

Living Room

pond

Dark Room

Photography Studio & Exhibition

Chill Terrace

Backyard

ground level

ARTISTS COUPLE'S HOUSE+STUDIO FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER AND A MUSICIAN - URBAN HOUSING - WORKSHOP

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In the widest strip, facing the street, the studio, exhibition, and darkroom for the photographer on the ground floor and on it, in the upper floor, a rehearsal platform/deck for the musician, that can excercise or play to liven up the partner's work journeys.

In this same strip, in the background of the lot, the house's living room on the ground floor and the master bedroom and main bathroom on the upper floor.

master bedroom

master bathroom

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+3,00

Music Office +3,00

Bridge

Aux.Room

Master Bedroom

Music Studio

Master Bathroom

Walk-in Closet

upper level

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street elevation - night

dinning room

location: gross floor area: estimated budget: client:

urban colonial downtown 238.70m² 180,950.00 € photographer and musicial couple

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