Archtiecture firm Estudio Arquitectura Hago (EAH) designed this home at Villanueva de la Serena,  an economic center, with  a population of 26,111, of the Las Vegas Altas of Guadiana river region, in the Province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. Founded in the thirteenth century, the city was an important centre for the Mesta in the Middle Ages.

The house is located in a newly developed area, on a rectangular plot facing southeast that conditions access and all openings and the capture of light inside.
Estudio Arquitectura Hago designed the house establishing a triple relationship of close, distant and zenith views.

The program proposes all the active functions related to the garden, including the master bedroom, placing the children's bedrooms on the first floor. In the lower part, the areas are spatially related through a large diagonal skylight that crosses all the rooms, resizing the space with a double height. On the upper floor, the rooms look horizontally at the distant landscape.
 

Project description by Estudio Arquitectura Hago

The project relates the interior space with the garden, the sky and the surrounding landscape. For this reason, the building is revealed outside trough three large continuous windows in plan, consecutive in height that solves an indeterminate scale:

 
• A large window inserts the ground floor on the garden.
• A skylight integrates the sunlight inside.
• A third window, on the first floor, frames the views of the arid surrounding rustic plots and the castle of Magacela.
 
Functionally, the ground floor developes all the uses for the common life of the owners by two blocks, the day and night areas. Both areas are spatially related through a large diagonal skylight that crosses all the rooms, resizing the space with a double height. For the children, a second level is built that solves a couple of bedrooms and a bathroom, horizontally looking to the distant landscape.

We believe that the project carry out three scales:
 
• A domestic scale (typological) directly linked to the client's way of life.
• A landscape scale (environmental) that links the architecture with the plot, the sky and the landscape.
• And an urban scale (morphological) that attends to the urban edge location of the plot.
 
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Design team
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Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio y Emilio Delgado Martos.
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Javier Nuñez González, Borja Pérez de Villar y Nuria Pérez Cabrero. Civil Engineer.- Ángel Risco Ceniceros.
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Foncal SL.
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Budget
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€285.000.
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Location
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Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain.
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Estudio Arquitectura HAGO is a spanish office based in Madrid, practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and design. The practice is a partnership led by Emilio Delgado-Martos and Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio. Emilio y Antonio established their office in Madrid in 2005, employing engineers, industrial designers, graphic designers, researchers and architects in close collaboration, intimately involved from the beginning of the design process.

Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio is architect since 2001 (ETSA-Sevilla). He has work in several offices such as Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos (Sevilla) and Alberto Campo Baeza (Madrid) In 2002 he joined Nuñez Ribot Arquitectos Asociados (Madrid) improving his personal knowledge in construction. In 2006 he developed an investigation about cities mastered by chairman Juan Herreros.

Emilio Delgado Martos is architect (2001, ETS Arquitectura, Madrid). He serves as lecturer in Graduate School of Architecture and Faculty of Fine Arts&Design (since 2006, UFV, Madrid).

In 2005 both founded Estudio Arquitectura Hago where they works on projects and competitions. After nearly 10 years of work and more than 90 projects, they are specialists in restoration, cultural spaces and heritage.

Collaborators since 2005.-

Fernando Alda (photographer), Jorge Almena (structures), Javier Bachiller Alonso, Javier Callejas Sevilla (photo), Javier Celaya Morón, Borja Fernández Florez, Pablo González Jiménez, Adriana Hernández García, Ignacio Herrero Frutos, Brigitte & Daniel Hollegha, Pablo Jiménez Gil, Rosa León Pérez, Graciano Macarrón Stamp, Javier Martínez Moronta, Carlos Pesqueira Calvo (photo), Alejandro Rico (structures), Carlos Rubio Manso (quantity surveyor), Andrés Rubio Morán (structures), Juan Pablo Ruiz Menéndez, Álvaro Sáez O'Farrell, Iago Sánchez Besteiro, Stefan Strohmeier, Andrés Toledo Domínguez, Rafael Úrculo Aramburu & Carlos Úrculo Cámara (facilities management).
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