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Architects: HANGHAR
- Area: 60 m²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Max Hart Nibbrig
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Lead Architect: Eduardo Mediero
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Text description provided by the architects. In a small village in the county of Cameros, La Rioja we find a very special house. Unlike the structures nearby, this house is defined by a monumental, five-story high façade, composed of thick, stone walls and symmetrical openings. Each floor, which has the same distribution and dimensions, is connected by a spiraling wooden staircase ending in a skylight that brings light in. On the ground floor of house, next to the village’s ravine, we find a narrow and long space, formerly used for storing cattle and goods.
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The project consists of the remodeling of such space into an area for leisure and living alongside an adjacent garden. It is for this reason that a humble, but effective, intervention is proposed, one in which the traces of the old stable coexist with the requirements for contemporary dwelling. A sober concrete slab is introduced, in which a series of 10x10cm old tiles are inlaid. The window openings are expanded and aligned with the above balconies, allowing for natural light to fill the space, along with a large 2,5x2,5m opening that gives access to an adjacent alley.
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Next to one of the windows, an austere bench made out of plaster is built for the family to enjoy long summer nights. The cattle’s former drinker, a heavy, stone piece, is put on top of an articulate brick structure, functioning as the space’s washbasin.
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The exterior garden is solved with a sinuous colored-concrete platform that snakes alongside the existing vegetation. The slab’s plane is elevated 15cm above the garden’s ground, allowing for a spatial continuity with the stable’s interior and generating an exterior domestic landscape that.
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