Spanish studio Rául Sánchez Architects has taken benefit of a sloping web site in Tarragona to create a concrete dwelling with a sunken courtyard, which opens up right into a double-height residing space.
Named Home in Cala Tamarit, the orthogonal, uncovered concrete dwelling was created for 2 on-line, distant employees who wished a house that would supply a “tangible, bodily expertise”.
“Exactly as a result of their work is so immaterial, they wished their future home to be the alternative: materials over immaterial, quantity and mass over lightness, expertise over immediacy,” defined founder Rául Sánchez.
Home in Cala Tamarit was designed by Rául Sánchez Architects to be a “play of contrasts”, contained inside two blocks topped by a roof terrace and staggered to create exterior balconies and verandas.
The route into the house begins with a concrete stair that descends into the sunken backyard courtyard, earlier than opening into an expansive, double-height residing area.
“The ceremony of descending the steps and dropping the view of the setting leads into a really intimate and silent area, with the tinted partitions and the sky above,” mentioned Sánchez.
“Then you definitely enter the home and, undergo some not-aligned areas, and get into the double-height lounge with such a distinction of openness and top,” Sánchez added.
“Thus, as is a continuing in my work, this home reveals its complexity as you uncover – stroll by way of it, and it has rather more to supply than what it appears at first sight.”
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Home in Cala Tamarit’s materials palette follows this idea of contrasts. Externally, it’s completed in concrete made with a heat yellow pigment – required because of native constructing rules – and options ribs of timber that shade and supply privateness to its home windows.
Inside, uncovered concrete and white-painted partitions left clean for the consumer’s assortment of paintings wrap the largely versatile and flowing structure.
On the alternative aspect of the house, the residing area and kitchen open out onto a collection of stepped terraces, with a seating space above and a swimming pool beneath, which ends the place the backyard drops right into a tree-filled ravine.
A skylit metallic staircase wraps the lounge and leads as much as the first-floor bedrooms, that are given a hotter really feel by built-in timber storage models and tiled bogs.
A blocky type and sense of “discovery” additionally knowledgeable a earlier dwelling by Rául Sánchez Architects close to Barcelona, which presents a clean facade to the road however reveals itself upon descending onto a cantilevering terrace.
Different Spanish properties lately featured on Dezeen embody the minimalist Barcelona Home by Ström Architects and Casa Tres Patis, which Twobo Arquitectura organised round a collection of distinct patios.
The images is by David Zarzoso.
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