Memory of the project
Alien is a structure that emerges from inside the house, as did that hidden passenger in the mythical Ridley Scott’s film. The structure appears and disappears in different “moments” transforming the interior space of a house that just keeps the old walls that defined it: stone masonry walls covered with white cement.A compartmentalized house mutates into a house formed by a single space open to the sea, where all spaces are visually connected to water. Inside, the house consists on two L-shaped spaces, superimposed but displaced. Downstairs, day activities take place. Upstairs, we find the bedrooms and the library.
The main value of the house is the spatial sequence that is established between the interior and exterior. This sequence is a selection of longitudinally linked spaces with very different characteristics: a garden facing the sea, terraces and an open platform, a covered and open space behind the great arch, a patio, an open and raised terrace overturned to the patio, a porch on the back of the house and a garden next to it. This catalog of transition spaces talks about a house 100% mediterranean where the space strategy dissolves the limits between inside and outside and between the contemplative and the domestic.
It seemed important to underline the presence of the new and the previous elements through materials. That's why concrete builds the new, and white walls represent the already existing construction. Building follows concept.
Text.- Alfredo Paya.
Architect.- noname29: Alfredo Payá Benedito.
Total area.- 278 m².
Dates.- 2006 (design), diciembre 2009 (building start), enero 2012 (building finalization).
Works management.- noname29: Alfredo Payá Benedito, Arturo Calero Hombre.
Technical architects.- Natalia Velasco Velázquez.
Collaborators.- Arturo Calero Hombre, Sonia Miralles Mud.
Interior design.- Beatriz Vera Payá.
Photography.- David Frutos.
Constructor.- Construcciones Corquintin.
