A fragmented house on a slope. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos
08/09/2022.
[Chiva] Spain
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ
Valencia-based studio Juan Marco Arquitectos has designed its proposed rNrH industrialized house in the town of Chiva, in eastern Spain. The house is located on a steeply sloping site in the Barranco de Soterraña ravine, so the project had to be adapted to this condition.
The house was designed to be built in three months with easily installed materials and fragmented, integrating passive and self-generating energy systems for self-sufficiency.
The house was designed to be built in three months with easily installed materials and fragmented, integrating passive and self-generating energy systems for self-sufficiency.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
Section. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Section. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Section. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Axonometric. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Details. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Rendering. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Transportation process. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
Construction process. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
Construction process. rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
Juan Marco Arquitectos fragmented the house into eight modules, both interior and exterior, to facilitate transport, placing them "in situ" in an elevated position to overcome the complicated topography of the terrain using a lightweight metal structure. This also allows for future modifications or extensions to the project. An interesting realization in which we find references to the architecture of John Hejduk.
Nature plays an important role in the house, including it in an innovative way without resorting to large windows, but through intermediate spaces and walkways between modules. All parts of the house have direct access to the outside, playing with the landscape and the layout of the house.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
Nature plays an important role in the house, including it in an innovative way without resorting to large windows, but through intermediate spaces and walkways between modules. All parts of the house have direct access to the outside, playing with the landscape and the layout of the house.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
rNrH industrialized home by Juan Marco Arquitectos. Photograph by Diego Opazo.
Description of project by Juan Marco Arquitectos
The house is located on a plot with a steep slope in the Barranco de Soterraña, a natural watercourse near Valencia.
An industrialized, fragmented and unplugged house idea developed, integrating passive systems and self-sufficient energy generation.
In this mid-hill location, the house, designed to be manufactured with industrialized components in three months and then installed in a few days, is accommodated on a light metallic structure, that allows habitability in this complex topography, without manipulating or taming it.
Therefore, a sequence of elevated domestic, interior and exterior spaces is developed, thus maintaining the ground runoff regime, and allowing future extensions, incorporating other modules, or simply colonizing parts of this hybrid structural framework.
The house explores this fragmentation, consistent with the proposed construction systems, generating a profound daily relationship with the landscape, without resorting to large glazed surfaces or other devices incompatible with the climate and the budget. Consequently, all parts of the house in this sequence of spaces have direct access to the outside and play with the games of the proposed structure.
The image is only part of much greater complexity.
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Architects
Proyect team
Collaborating architects: Guillermo Gómez, Sheila Pérez, Alvaro Arroyo, Zuzanna Cieslewicz.
Collaborators
Structures.- Daniel Carratalá.
Installations.- Ingenet, S.L.
Quantity surveyor.- Miguel Monteagudo Cuevas.
Installations.- Ingenet, S.L.
Quantity surveyor.- Miguel Monteagudo Cuevas.
Area
142 sqm.
Dates
Project: 2018 / Manufacture and installation: 2021.
Location
Chiva, Valencia, Spain.
Photography
Juan Marco Marco. Juan Marco Arquitectos
Juan Marco Arquitectos is an architecture office located in Valencia, with a vocation of laboratory and place of study. They ara very involved in facing the theory and practice of the construction of architecture and more concerned with the economic, technological, social, and environmental considerations of their work than with signing calligraphies.
Faced with a new paradigm shift in architecture, Juan Marco Arquitectos is committed to a frame of reference without specialization and without a defined position, where the putting into action of all available devices turns the project into an instrument of reflection and communication, the project as an idea of future. A strategy to operate within the limits of the prevailing conditions committed to reality and generating possibilities, with optimism and the joy of technology.
The founder, Juan Marco Marco, studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Buenos Aires. Later, he took doctoral courses at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. From 2001 to 2003 he collaborated with the architect Josep Llinás, in Barcelona. In 2004 he founded Juan Marco Marco architecture studio, since 2015: Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Juan Marco Marco has been a teacher at the ETSAV, 2004-2005, and a Master's degree professor at the ESET-CEU, Valencia, between 2009 and 2012. He is currently an associate professor at the ESET-CEU. He has given conferences, has been awarded and finalist in different architecture competitions, has participated in different exhibitions, and his work has been published in numerous national and international architecture magazines.
Faced with a new paradigm shift in architecture, Juan Marco Arquitectos is committed to a frame of reference without specialization and without a defined position, where the putting into action of all available devices turns the project into an instrument of reflection and communication, the project as an idea of future. A strategy to operate within the limits of the prevailing conditions committed to reality and generating possibilities, with optimism and the joy of technology.
The founder, Juan Marco Marco, studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the University of Buenos Aires. Later, he took doctoral courses at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. From 2001 to 2003 he collaborated with the architect Josep Llinás, in Barcelona. In 2004 he founded Juan Marco Marco architecture studio, since 2015: Juan Marco Arquitectos.
Juan Marco Marco has been a teacher at the ETSAV, 2004-2005, and a Master's degree professor at the ESET-CEU, Valencia, between 2009 and 2012. He is currently an associate professor at the ESET-CEU. He has given conferences, has been awarded and finalist in different architecture competitions, has participated in different exhibitions, and his work has been published in numerous national and international architecture magazines.
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