In the middle of a natural background featuring the tall pine trees that surround the town of Premià de Dalt, stands the single-family home designed by Pablo Corroto Pradillo. Based on Mediterranean architectural culture, the project seeks to create a harmonious and dynamic rhythm thanks to different voids in an apparently sculptural volume.

Through different strategically placed openings and careful manipulation of light throughout the building, the windows and openings generate changing reflections that blur the boundaries of the home, incorporating an immediate environment into the domestic space. The project offers a space to live and experiment thanks to the different technical innovations used.
The project developed by Pablo Corroto Pradillo proposes different spaces that are intertwined in a flexible program where each space is different from the previous one. The day areas are developed in a more open space and in connection with the environment on the ground floor, and connect with the rest of the house through a staircase that takes you to the upper floor, where different routes take you to the private areas.

The project uses pioneering innovations in vernacular techniques and materials, and taking into account the ecological and cultural factors of its location, it seeks to obtain greater energy and functional efficiency. It reflects the construction tradition of the area and is supported by a neutral and timeless color palette, projecting a home with simple materiality, but at the same time expressive and innovative.


Can Flaque by pablocorrotopradillo. Photograph by Del Rio Bani.
 

Project description by Pablo Corroto Pradillo

Nestled in the Mediterranean town of Premià de Dalt, Spain, this family contemporary residence epitomizes architectural simplicity refinement.

A sculptural monolith, emerges from the natural backdrop of tall pines and coastal rugged terrain. The carved endemic figure is provided with a harmonious and dynamic rhythm by its voids, reclaiming the essence of Mediterranean architecture, but offering pioneering innovations in vernacular techniques and materials, making the project not just a place to live but a space to experience.

Articulated through segments which intertwine and connect creating a flexible living programme; with each space a new narrative unfolds and there is no section nor fixed perspective that represents the entire structure. The house is not established as a static stage; as we move around, planes and openings emerge, successively closing off visuals and revealing new perspectives.


Can Flaque by pablocorrotopradillo. Photograph by Del Rio Bani.

Through the utilization of strategic viewpoints and the careful manipulation of light throughout, the windows and openings provide ever-changing reflections and blur the limits between interior and exterior, making the immediate surroundings a part of the domestic interior. This continuity is enhanced with a neutral materiality and colour palette.  

The design considers both the ecological and cultural factors of its location to achieve enhanced energy and functional efficiency. A house that fuses tectonic and advanced solutions without fuss and artifice, blending harmoniously into the surrounding ecosystem, and inviting its inhabitants to an immersive and contemplative experience.

To fully savour this project, it is desirable to move through it, to invest a little time, and to observe how the link between the past and the current is omnipresent.

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Engineering.- Julio Cobas.
Sustainability consultants.- Green Cross UK.
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396.50 sqm.
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2023.
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Premià de Dalt, Barcelona. Spain.
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Facade, roof and structural solutions and adhesives.- SIKA.
Carpentry.- K·Line España.
Sanitaryware.- Argenta cerámicas, Roca.
Kitchen.- Santos.
Local carpentry.- Milespais.
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pablocorrotopradillo. International architectural engineering and construction company founded in 2019 by Pablo Corroto Pradillo, with offices in Spain and South Africa. His work seeks to harmonize functionality, sustainability and aesthetics to shape the ecology of today's cities while fostering endemic cultural tradition.

It understands architecture as a means to investigate the development of cultures, influencing social behaviour, while prioritizing the engineering and functionality component of its application, without forgetting the importance of entrepreneurship and the sale of a profitable product and quality for both a promoter, a public institution or a private client.

Pablo Corroto Pradillo. International architect with experience, graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM), with a degree and master's degree, and a master's degree in Advanced Architecture in Ecological Structures at the Institute of Advanced Architecture (IAAC- Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)); and he has worked on multi-scale projects in countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan, China and South Africa, in addition to having participated in projects with studios such as the multi-award-winning García Márquez Library in Barcelona.
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Published on: June 18, 2024
Cite: "Dialoguing with Mediterranean culture. Can Flaque by Pablo Corroto Pradillo" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/dialoguing-mediterranean-culture-can-flaque-pablo-corroto-pradillo> ISSN 1139-6415
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