Szoke House / Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 25 May 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Szoke House is located on the southern slopes of Monte Abantos, at San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a small town close to the city of Madrid. Monte Abantos is full of pine trees and stands out for its unevenness and its rocky areas. The aim of the project is to ensure that the house blends with the natural environment it settles in and to make the most out of the landscape around it: La Herrería forest to the southwest and the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, a basilica and royal palace from the 16^th century to the east.

Holm Oak’s House / Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 05:00:00 +0000

In a clearing in the pine forest of the southern slope of Mount Abantos of San Lorenzo de El Escorial is situated the house, that embraces an existing Holm oak.

Casa Levene en El Escorial / NO.MAD

Jonathan Alarcón — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

For the concept of this home, we asked ourselves wheather we were capable of building something while maintaining the utmost respect for the natural surroundings, avoiding speaking about sustainability, alternative energy or ecology as a veneer for modernity and political correctness. Perhaps it was ultimately a question of making the most of the qualities of the given natural environment, maintaining the utmost respect for the natural qualities afforded to us, and having a minimum impact on them. We thought that a good way to start might be to adapt the volumetric line of the building to the existing forest, leaving the plantation to choose the way it would be experienced. As the starting point for this process, we identified the clusters of trees that work together in the forest while we dared to call everything that lies outside them the “anti-forest” or construction-susceptible void, without having to remove any trees. We generated a flat geometry on top of this void to avoid the trunks and take the heights from the existing ground level and the slopes of the roof planes permitted by the by-laws. This operation appeared to be an immensely complex part of the process, and forced us to do numerous tests until to arrived at the solution that met all the parameters at every point of the final volumetrics. What appeared was a non-Cartesian geometry with a faceted volume that adapted to the topographic conditions and the planning requirements, inciting us to resolve the brief for this home in an exciting space. The geometry is what will define and discover the ways of experiencing the spaces and their relationships with the outside landscape, a surprising, fruitful relationship between a forest and strict regulations.

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Szoke House / Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos

Holm Oak’s House / Aranguren&Gallegos Arquitectos

Casa Levene en El Escorial / NO.MAD