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Unification of materials, harmony among colours and rotundity of geometries combine creating a great viewpoint integrated in the mountain and with privileged views to the horizon.

Huge stonish retaining walls accompany us along the ascent up the mountain till reaching the dwelling, where these walls become the planes that generate the main spaces of it. With the wish to achieve a full integration with environment, the red rodeno stone extracted from excavation is reutilized in the masonry walls. Thus, the dwelling is rooted to the terrain and acquires a tectonic character that makes it blend with environment. The walls are parallel to each other and pependicular to the slope of the terrain, configuring rooms and circulations of the dwelling. These spaces are enclosed with some glass panes from floor to ceiling, thus permitting a total transparence and visual communication with he exterior.

On one side, the hosue looks onto the valley bordering with the sea. In the bedroom, a balcony flies over a huge free height, offering a great sensation of ingravity and a wide panoramic view of the environment. On the other side, it looks onto a fenced exterior space, intimate, result of splitting the dwelling from the mountain. This exterior space links the pre-existing dwelling with the extension and becomes the preamble of the art collection. The most private rooms of the dwelling as well as passage areas look onto it, as a counterpoint to the extense views offered by the valley.

The size and height of interior spaces together with the wide glass openings to the exterior, create the impression of an absence of limits between interior and exterior spaces. The fluid connection between spaces favours the communication among rooms searching for continuity, emphasized by the use of a minimum number of materials. The grey Ulldecona stone used in paving with great format quartering, is transformed to create tha bathrooms and kitchen worksurfaces; the laminated iroko wood exterior carpentry blends with the rodeno stone of the walls; the white colour provides with unity to interior, walls, furniture, and pivoting doors from floor to ceiling are arranged creating a quiet and fluid atmosphere that crosses interior spaces.

Unification of materials, harmony among colours and rotundity of geometries combine creating a great viewpoint integrated in the mountain and with privileged views to the horizon.

PAZ Y COMEDIAS HOUSE |Ramón Esteve. Estudio de Arquitectura
Sagunto, Valencia – SPAIN |
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