Located a few streets from Puerto de Sagunto beach, in Valencia, House AA, designed by Horma Estudio, is built on the corner of a block, where they resolve the union of the two street facades, continuously, through a curve that replaces the right angle that both edges should form when closed.

This first constructive response gives rise to the development of the rest of the house, which rises on a brick plinth that introduces the ground floor and the garage, and on which stands this large curved volume that visually contrasts as it is a white façade as opposed to the color of the ceramic.
House AA, designed by Horma Estudio and located in the Port of Sagunto on the Valencian coast, consists of two floors and a last one on the roof. The ground floor seeks the maximum entry of natural light through large openings that merge the interior of the room with the patio area, linking the house with the exterior vegetation.

On the upper floor, the façade opens strategically located holes in search of light in specific areas, and where the most private spaces are also distributed, such as the rooms or the work area, culminating in height with a completely open last floor where it locates the pool, and where those curves that characterize the house from the outside are also present.
 

Description of project by Horma Estudio

The project aims to respond to a  corner where a continuous elevation, without edges, is offered to be seen from all angles, without prioritizing one look over another. The curve, understood as a line without discontinuity or startles, becomes the working tool for a house that pretends to be part of the environment that surrounds it. A brick basement solves the relationship with level 0 and supports the continuous and strategically perforated element to express the spatial richness of its interior. Inside, the house does not obey pre-established orders, allowing the section to discover spaces and link them together to maintain natural light and the view always in movement.

The brick, meticulously placed on the facade and access to the house, shapes the basement of the ground floor, on which volume that materializes the first floor and roof rests. On the facade, openings are discovered that offer natural light to very specific interior spaces.

The ground floor includes the daytime use of the house, this is understood as a single space whose uses are configured by different curves and planes. The patio, fused with the interior through the glass creates with this a space that could be unique. In it, the red carpentries and the green of the vegetation make up the border between the house and the street.

The game of heights allows the most private spaces for individual use to be located in the following levels. The path ends at the roof, an open and unique space where pool accompanies the rest in language and form of the project and is specified as one of the unique places of the house.

Brick, vegetation and curves are the elements in charge of materializing a house that apparently it does not follow specific rhythms, but it is undoubtedly thought out and designed for its new inhabitants.

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Design team
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Nacho Juan, Clara Cantó, Jose Iborra, Ana Riera, Andrés Herrero, Belén Iglesias, María Mateo.
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250 sqm.
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2020.
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Street Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, nº 15. Puerto de Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.
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HORMA is an architectural studio founded and directed by Nacho Juan and Clara Cantó. Both, together with Jose Iborra, coordinate the work of the rest of the team and the development of each of the projects. 

Their job is to understand architecture as a personal experience that allows each client to turn their project into a unique reality according to their needs. The architecture, learned and developed from the passion and the knowledge, allows us to read each project as a new opportunity to continue growing.

Recently recognized in the selection of emerging architecture of the Valencian Community and in the mention received by the Official College of Architects of the Valencian Community, from the studio we continue working every day to get the best project for each of our clients. Architecture and interior design, merged into a single line of work, allow us to develop our projects from the first line of their idea to the last detail.

NACHO JUAN, Director - Puerto de Sagunto, 1983
2016 | Doctor architect by the Technical School of Architecture of Valencia. Outstanding Cumlaude. 
2016 - Deputy Director School of Architecture at the University Ceu Cardenal Herrera 
2013 - Director Master's Degree in Interior Design at the University Ceu Cardenal Herrera 
2012 - Co-director of the graphic architecture communication studio Drawyourdreams 
2009 - Professor at the Ceu Cardenal Herrera University 
2008 | Architect with Honorary Degree by the School of Architecture of Valencia 

CLARA CANTÓ, Director - Líria, 1983
2015 - Professor of Master in interior design at the University Ceu Cardenal Herrera 
2012 - Co-director of the graphic architecture communication studio Drawyourdreams 
2010 - 2011 | Master in Prefabrication and Architectural Industrialization. 
2009 | Architect with Honorary Degree by the School of Architecture of Valencia

JOSE IBORRA, Coordinator - Murcia, 1987
2014 - Professor at the architectural graphic communication studio Drawyourdreams 
2012 | Architect by the Technical School of Architecture of Valencia

AWARDS   
2017 | 2nd Prize. Square Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente Contest. Canet d'en Berenguer. 
2012 | 4th Classified Solar Decathlon Europe. Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera. SML system 2011 | 2nd Prize. Competition Auditorium Ciutat d'Elx. Collaboration with Clara Mejía, Juan Deltell and Guillermo Mocholí. 
2011 | 2nd Prize. Competition for the marina of Denia. Collaboration with Clara Mejía, Juan Deltell, Guillermo Mocholí and Lahoz + Martí architects. 
2008 | Finalist. Multipurpose building competition at the Miguel Delibes Campus. University of Valladolid. Collaboration with Clara Mejía, Juan Deltell and Guillermo Mocholí. 3rd Grade ETSAV Social Council Award. 
2008 | Finalist. Verni Contest • Preys for the Design of a Prefabricated Concrete Piece. ETSAV. Collaboration with Sergio Artola, Alejandro Gómez and Ángel López de Ocáriz. 
2007 | 1a Honorable Mention Hispalyt Ceramic Chair Contest. Brick Interpretation Center in Seville. Collaboration with Sergio Artola, Alejandro Gómez and Ángel López de Ocáriz. 
2006 | 1st Prize. Verni Contest • Prens for the Design of a Prefabricated Concrete Piece. ETSAV. Collaboration with Sergio Artola, Alejandro Gómez and Ángel López de Ocáriz. 2005 | 1st prize XV Iberian Contest of Constructive Solutions PLADUR. Pavilion M2012. ETSAV. Collaboration with Sergio Artola, Alejandro Gómez and Ángel López de Ocáriz.

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