Pitch House / Iñaqui Carnicero

Jun 2010

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Architect: Iñaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares
Location: Los Peñascales, Madrid, Spain
Technical Architect: Manuel Iglesias
Contractor: Antón Iakobiny Pitch S.L.
Client: Guirao-Carnicero
Project Year: 2005-2009
Photographs: Courtesy of Iñaqui Carnicero

The house is located in a small neighbourhood on the west boundaries of Madrid in a place called “los Peñascales”, that mean something as well as great stones. The plot is characterized to have a great slope oriented to the south and have two great granite rocks partially covered by moss. The structure of the house at a functional level as formal is explained perfectly in section. The underground level is used to solve the encounter with the slope of the land.

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It incorporates two granite rocks, one of them structurally and other as an articulation that makes the main access to the house. The ceiling of the underground level generates the white floor made of calcareus stone that constitutes the noble plane where the daily life is developed. A single space opened to the south only close by glass that disappears to incorporate the water plane of the swimming pool in a first plane and the mount named “el pardo” in a second.

This closure does not fit with the perimeter of the first floor but moves inside to generated two porches at the ends and a marquee on the front that allows the entrance of rays of the sun in winter and is protected of its impact during the warm months of summer. The first floor is been thought like a closed box made of concrete that floats over the glass of the ground floor. Here is where the rest of the rooms are organized as well as the zones destined to the study.

A unique bay window located at 1,40 meter of height allows to trim the skyline of the landscape and uniformly illuminates the concrete ceiling. The independence of levels is only interrupted by two double heights that put in relation both spaces described previously. The economic restrictions have caused that the house is solved with the minimal possible gestures that nevertheless generates a great diversity of spaces and attractive situations.

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* Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "Pitch House / Iñaqui Carnicero" 09 Jun 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/63548>

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Tuf Pak says:

This is just an extraordinary house. The section is really satisfying.

Well done.

# June 9, 2010 at 14:00

JS says:

This is how you build a concrete house.

Exceptional

# June 9, 2010 at 14:09

Bucky Fuller says:

It’s a lion – ROAR!!!

# June 9, 2010 at 15:04

How much does your house weigh?

# June 9, 2010 at 15:05

tim says:

f*ckin hell, this is way outta space..

some people REALLY fulfil their (and my) dreams !!

# June 9, 2010 at 18:38

alejandro says:

expect my arrival…. (with a bunch of nails, a hammer, some stuff to hang and a couple of plants)

# June 9, 2010 at 19:55

Ingo Ratsdorf says:

A piece of art surely – and a matter of taste.
Not my personal taste though. Cold, harsh in severe contrast to the landscape and any natural form or shape.

# June 9, 2010 at 21:28

rebuke says:

concrete, formed earth – molded with the impression of the formwork left behind, formwork of wood. It tells a story of materiality, nature manipulated by man should stand on its own, seperate from nature as man has no business trying to recreate it. This is elegant and sophisticated.

# July 7, 2010 at 21:17

Chi Chi says: