ETB Studio shared with us their proposal for a new guesthouse in in Villafranca de los Barros, Spain. Their complex was awarded with second place in the competition. More images and architect’s description after the break.
The new centre of hospitality in Villafranca de los Barros is a dynamic complex which is more like a town than a building; it is a small, protected, comfortable world, a “barrio blanco” carpeted with thousands of brightly coloured flowers and able to relate with the surrounding countryside, which it is deeply rooted to. The concept for this project comes from the “haciendas agricolas” in southern Spain, white buildings dotted on the landscape like silent presences firmly anchored to the land. The original volume is divided up, generating a flexible system of smaller volumes which move according to the direction of and the search for light.
