ALIEN HOUSE, by noname29
20/09/2013.
Alfredo Payá [Alicante] Spain
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA
This house is actually two things: both a preexistence and a tenant. The preexistence is an old traditionaly built house; the tenant on the other hand, is a volume that, from the inside, takes over the preexistence and turns it into a new house. In this parasitic relationship, materials give the "odd element" away, leaving proof of its new guest role.
Porche. Casa Alien, por noname29. Fotografía © David Frutos.
Elevation. Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Interior view. Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Interior view. Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Porch. Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Interior view, corridor. Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Vista interior. Casa Alien, por noname29. Fotografía © David Frutos.
Patio interior. Casa Alien, por noname29. Fotografía © David Frutos.
Vista interior. Casa Alien, por noname29. Fotografía © David Frutos.
General view. Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Alien House, by noname29. Photography © David Frutos.
Location plan. Alien House, by noname29.
Conceptual axonometric view. Alien House, by noname29.
Ground floor plan. Alien House, by noname29.
First floor plan. Alien House, by noname29.
Longitudinal section. Alien House, by noname29.
Sections. Alien House, by noname29.
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.
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ALFREDO PAYÁ
Alfredo Payá was born in Alicante , spain, 19th march 1961. 1988 Architect by Technical superior school of architecture of Madrid, Spain. Estabished in Alicante since 1988. 1988-89. 1991-00 Projects teacher in the technical superior school of architecture of Valencia, Spain. Projects teacher in the technical superior school of architecture of Alicante, Spain. Guest teacher in several universities and habitual lecturer in different institutions.
His complete work has been reviewed in different publications and national and international exhibitions. At the beginning of 2006 Alfredo Payá founded the noname29 office, where he develops his work at present. Nowadays projects lecturer at the Catalonia International University.
