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Architects: OAB
- Year: 2006
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Photographs:Alejo Bague
![House 2 For A Photographer / OAB - Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5278/4bdd/e8e4/4e82/b000/0048/large_jpg/P_VU_ALCANAR_F05.jpg?1383615441)
Text description provided by the architects. A 250 long by 18 meters wide plot perpendicular to the sea, with an arable area, leading from the beach itself to some old ruins, canes and lemon trees.
![House 2 For A Photographer / OAB - Facade, Concrete](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5278/4bbb/e8e4/4eb7/1800/0048/large_jpg/P_VU_ALCANAR_F03.jpg?1383615401)
The house for the photographer II is at the end of the plot. Constructed on a platform 70 cm high above the level of natural floodable ground, three small irregular floor plan and section buildings dialogue through an empty space with fleeting views. A palm grove with 52 Washingtonian palm trees leads us from the beach to the house.
![House 2 For A Photographer / OAB - Image 10 of 17](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5278/4bd0/e8e4/4eb7/1800/0049/large_jpg/P_VU_ALCANAR_F04.jpg?1383615426)
The breakdown of the volumes is due to the conditions of the landscape, to the construction, and to the light which suggests a Picasso painting that was painted in the area and which is currently in the Picasso Museum in Paris.
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The empty centre is thus converted into the main area of the house: a tense area, made up geometrically in its upper part by means of the high opaque bodies of the various pavilions, and on the floor plan up to a height of 2.10 meters in a continuous area connecting the various shady interior areas with view of the sea, the plant background and the living areas above the platform.
![House 2 For A Photographer / OAB - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5278/4b97/e8e4/4e82/b000/0044/large_jpg/P_VU_ALCANAR_F02.jpg?1383615371)
The play on volume decomposition reminds us of the Picasso cubist composition. The clear-dark and the intense daylight in this area of the Mediterranean balance the topographical plentitude of this area of the Delta.
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