House on the Castle Mountainside / Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Oct 2010

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Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location: Ayora, Valencia, Spain
Project Architects: Fran Silvestre , Mª José Sáez
Project Team: Pedro Vicente López López, José Ángel Ruíz Millo, José Vicente Miguel López, Fernando Usó Martín, Javier Cardós Elena
Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann
Site Area: 477 sqm
Project Area: 230 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Fernando Alda

The building is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth. The mountain, topped by a castle, is covered by a blanket housing through a system of aggregation by simple juxtaposition of pieces generated fragmented target tissue that adapts to the topography.

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The project proposes to integrate into the environment, respecting their strategies of adaptation to the environment and materials away from the mimesis that would lead to misleading historicism, and showing the time constructively to meet the requirements of the “new people.” In this way the house is conceived as a piece placed on the ground, joining in the gap. A piece built on the same white lime, the same primacy of the massif on the opening, which takes the edge of the site to have their holes and integrated into the fragmentation of the environment.

The indoor space is divided by the void that is the core of communication cut parallel disposition of the mountain without touching it. On the ground floor are the garage and cellar, on a volume it has two floors with four rooms. Two of them, the rooms at the intermediate level are open to the private street, the other two on the upper level overlook above the houses opposite, the Valley of Ayora. One of them, the study is opened in turn to the central double height, incorporating it into their space. Across the gap, and on the mountain, are the areas facing the garden day illuminated by light reflected on the south slope of the castle oxidized.

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

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "House on the Castle Mountainside / Fran Silvestre Arquitectos" 04 Oct 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 26 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/80155>

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luca says:

this house just left me speechless……..

# October 4, 2010 at 08:04

FELIPE GOES says:

GREAT HOUSE !!!

# October 4, 2010 at 12:37

Andrew says:

My furniture wouldn’t work at all in this house.

# October 4, 2010 at 10:07

h.a. says:

is that actually a critic?

I think it is incredibly sharp and well designed as a space or volume in relation to light and landscape.

Not sure about how liveable it is, but may be the case that the pictures were taken before the house was ocupied. It is really amazing how this kind of houses improve when they are full of everyday life objects. For example the turegano house by Alberto Campo Baeza, which I visited, is fantastic now with all the paintings, books, etc

# October 4, 2010 at 10:35

Aarón On says:

this is an example when the geometry development is generative, the base of the living process, and generate an holistic product, like an organism. nice work!

# October 4, 2010 at 13:03

h_n_s says:

like a crystal emerging out of rock

# October 4, 2010 at 13:53

max says:

neh…

nothing special.

# October 4, 2010 at 15:06

up_today_arch says:

This one is realy may be coll origami house… made looks like perfect paper model…

# October 4, 2010 at 17:15

architect says:

i sense Siza inspiration on this one.

anyway, i think it ended up very good in this context, though it’s not that creative if you think/look at current’s architectural practices.

# October 4, 2010 at 20:13

Wasan says:

love at first sign <3

# October 5, 2010 at 02:59

marcobarbier says:

wonderful. Really inspiring.

# October 5, 2010 at 07:28

Craig says:

This is a great design with very beautiful lines and surface transitions. The way it receives light is very reminiscent of a cave, appropriate given the topographical context.

# October 11, 2010 at 20:32

Zoheir Ayad says: