Greater privacy and abstraction. "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca
21/02/2023.
[Elche] Spain
metalocus, OSCAR A. SÁNCHEZ
metalocus, OSCAR A. SÁNCHEZ
Murcia-based architecture studio La Mirateca completed a housing project in Elche, near the Mediterranean coast in the province of Alicante. The house is located in a new area on the outskirts of the city in an area of growth framed by the hills and the different elevations that surround the city.
This project avoids the relationship with the public road, trying to create a more intimate private space for its users, taking advantage of the fact that the main façade is transformed into a large 24-meter-long edge beam, hovering over the ground and creating a shadow area under it. It is possible to hide behind it the most intimate spaces of the house. Developing an "architectural promenade", the access gives way to a ramp that gives spatial continuity.
This project avoids the relationship with the public road, trying to create a more intimate private space for its users, taking advantage of the fact that the main façade is transformed into a large 24-meter-long edge beam, hovering over the ground and creating a shadow area under it. It is possible to hide behind it the most intimate spaces of the house. Developing an "architectural promenade", the access gives way to a ramp that gives spatial continuity.
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives.
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives
Roof floor. Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca.
Semi-basement floor. Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca.
Ground floor. Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca.
First floor. Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca.
Section. Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca.
La Mirateca developed the project on a 347.17 m² piece of land, with few references that may affect the building. The only element to consider was an artificial platform created previously, which conditioned the layout of the new project. The outdoor area consists of three patios and a space configured between the building and the party walls that generates two spaces for common uses that protect the area.
The plan displays an interesting game of geometric abstractions, which intelligently accommodates the housing program, placing the most public areas on the ground floor and the bedrooms or more private areas on the top floor. The house also has a basement with a program dedicated to meetings.
The concrete is used to be able to assimilate the artificial orography well, being an element that allows the project to create a better continuity between the two different levels and make an easier encounter with the terrain.
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives.
The plan displays an interesting game of geometric abstractions, which intelligently accommodates the housing program, placing the most public areas on the ground floor and the bedrooms or more private areas on the top floor. The house also has a basement with a program dedicated to meetings.
The concrete is used to be able to assimilate the artificial orography well, being an element that allows the project to create a better continuity between the two different levels and make an easier encounter with the terrain.
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives.
Description of project by La Mirateca
«Casa detrás de un muro / House behind a wall» is a project resolved based on the initial condition of giving an opaque response to its relationship with the public thoroughfare capable of allowing greater privacy for users and a more comfortable internal functioning without the need to be conditioned for what happens abroad. The absence of the hole in the façade implies creating our own tools to solve the organization of the program and to solve with the same construction what was eliminated by the starting premise.
The plot on which the project is located lacks orographic traces capable of conditioning the building. Alone, a previously created artificial platform is the only significant element and the point where the scheme rests. Three courtyards resolve the night uses and an outdoor space configured by the building and the dividing walls provide a double space for common uses with a sheltered outdoor area.
Concrete makes it possible to resolve the resounding response to the exterior of the project while creating the possibility for the building to meet the ground punctually, naturally assimilating the artificial orography created on the plot so that there is continuity between the different levels. Concrete and its own construction determine the shape of the building while allowing it to be moulded plastically so that the transition between the different heights is continuous and not divided by means of an orthodox superimposition of slabs.
Greater privacy, "House behind a wall" by La Mirateca. Photograph by Alejandro Gómez Vives.
In this sense, the main façade is transformed into a large 24-meter edge beam capable of flying over the ground, creating a shaded area under it and hiding behind it the most intimate spaces of the habitat. Subsequently, it accommodates the access through a ramp that continues with the idea of giving spatial continuity to the exterior elements while allowing a leisurely view of the access and its opening to the landscape of the distant city. In its encounter with the day area, the enclosure disappears and is transformed into large-format glass elements, thus resolving an immediate interior-exterior relationship.
Thus, concrete allows the project not to be a single response and to transform itself as the context generated by the different elements demands.
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Architects
La Mirateca. Lead architects.- Emilia Ruipérez Bastida and Raúl Latorre Luna.
Collaborators
Quantitive suveyor.- Antonio Ruiz Fernández.
Area
347.17 m².
Dates
2022.
Manufacturers
Exterior paving/Tiling.- Living Ceramics.
Inside paving.- Quick Step.
Carpentry of aluminium.- Alugom.
Glasses.- Guardian Glass.
Radiating floor.- Schluter Systems.
Conditioning.- LG.
Partitioning.- Saint-Gobain Placo.
Toilets.- Bathco.
Plumbing.- TRES grifería.
Electricity mechanism.- JUNG.
Inside paving.- Quick Step.
Carpentry of aluminium.- Alugom.
Glasses.- Guardian Glass.
Radiating floor.- Schluter Systems.
Conditioning.- LG.
Partitioning.- Saint-Gobain Placo.
Toilets.- Bathco.
Plumbing.- TRES grifería.
Electricity mechanism.- JUNG.
Location
Elche, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana. Spain.
Photography
Emilia Ruipérez Bastida and Raúl Latorre Luna. La Mirateca
La Mirateca is a Murcian contemporary architecture practice founded in 2010 by Emilia Ruipérez Bastida and Raúl Latorre Luna.
Both studied in Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valencia (ETSAV) and got their Master in Architectural Design in Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of Navarra (UNAV). They are currently doing their doctorate in the Architecture and Urbanism Program of the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM).
"Project, Build and Inhabit" are the main lines of work of the studio, allowing the team to face the project in an integral way, from its design, to construction and equipment, thus obtaining a very exhaustive control of the work in all its phases.
A professional activity of new construction and rehabilitation work combined with giving talks at different universities stands out. In 2018, they won the first City, creativity, culture and entrepreneurship prize with ZIUDAD by the Murcia City Council and have currently developed SISTEMA LAM, a modular, self-sufficient and technological architecture project based on industrialization.
Both studied in Higher Technical School of Architecture of Valencia (ETSAV) and got their Master in Architectural Design in Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of Navarra (UNAV). They are currently doing their doctorate in the Architecture and Urbanism Program of the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM).
"Project, Build and Inhabit" are the main lines of work of the studio, allowing the team to face the project in an integral way, from its design, to construction and equipment, thus obtaining a very exhaustive control of the work in all its phases.
A professional activity of new construction and rehabilitation work combined with giving talks at different universities stands out. In 2018, they won the first City, creativity, culture and entrepreneurship prize with ZIUDAD by the Murcia City Council and have currently developed SISTEMA LAM, a modular, self-sufficient and technological architecture project based on industrialization.
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