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Text description provided by the architects. Tired of living in a house with a lot of stairs, C. and A. decided they want to live, and already thinking about the future, in a house that could works only on the ground floor, without the need to spend all day going up and down stairs.
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That’s why the essential pieces (kitchen, dining room, living room, bathroom, laundry and bedrooms) are placed in close relationship with the garden.
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The house is configured in four volumes, where the most of the life of the building takes places on downstairs. The three volumes of the ground floor intersect in a void where the staircase is located, a self-supporting element that articulates them and connects whit the first floor, which rests on the other three to configure the volumetry.
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![Canyes House/ undos arquitectura cooperativa - Interior Photography, Stairs](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6154/d527/f91c/813d/ed00/0090/medium_jpg/Casa-Canyes_-2.jpg?1632949506)
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For the construction of Casa Canyes, it’s been chosen a traditional construction system of load-bearing walls and slabs of concrete joists and ceramic vaults. But the difference is that this type of construction has been reinterpreted and improved, achieving a balance between energy efficiency, sustainability, the use of healthy and local materials and aesthetics.
![Canyes House/ undos arquitectura cooperativa - Interior Photography, Countertop](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6154/d6c4/f91c/8153/8100/00d2/newsletter/Casa-Canyes_-311.jpg?1632949926)
![Canyes House/ undos arquitectura cooperativa - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Wood](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6154/d6b4/f91c/813d/ed00/00a8/newsletter/Casa-Canyes_-308.jpg?1632949911)
When designing the house, biclimatical architecture criteria has been considered as a good study of the characteristics of the place (climate, orientation, direction of the prevailing winds, ...), the prevision of a good thermal insulation (made with wood fibers) to reduce the energy demand, and for the solar control we’ve opted for the usual passive systems: Alicante blinds and pergolas with plant protection, which allow the passage of sunlight during the winter and provide shade and a place to shelter from the heat during the summer.
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