2 Houses with 6 Homes / nodo17 Architects

Architects: nodo17 Architects
Location: Pozuelo, Spain
Architect In Charge: Manuel Pérez Romero
Collaborator Architects: Alegría Zorrilla Miras, Birga Wingenfeld, Michael Moradiellos
Area: 820 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Pablo Cruz Arjona

Infography: Jaime López
Quantity Surveyor: Ignacio Delgado Conde
Structural Engineer: JOFEMAR (José Luis Gutierrez)
Services Surveyor: EURING Ingenieros

Construction of two semidetached houses. But, how many homes have two houses? Maybe not just 2. We like its in definition. Are they are 6 houses, 4 or 2…?

We propose an ambiguous project in relation to size and number of homes. The houses are divided in compact volumes, with different sizes and heights.

Instead of the options of clearly delimiting the building into two volumes that correspond to two houses or making them into a single volume, we propose a combination of volumes, fragments of small houses, which create an architecture without scale. Each volume is built with one material only, on the exterior as well as the interior of the houses.