Harmony between elements. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
08/04/2021.
[Ojacastro - La Rioja] Spain
metalocus, ALMUDENA PERLAZA
metalocus, ALMUDENA PERLAZA
MAAV has made rehabilitated a small cabin located in Ojacastro, a municipality located in La Rioja, in the north of the peninsula. What was once destined to house a three-story building today continues to maintain its exterior appearance, with an interior remodelling that gives new life to space.
The studio makes the reform trying to integrate into the landscape, instead of transforming it into something new, with this, it manages to maintain the harmony between the different elements that make up the urban fabric of Ojacastro.
The studio makes the reform trying to integrate into the landscape, instead of transforming it into something new, with this, it manages to maintain the harmony between the different elements that make up the urban fabric of Ojacastro.
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV. Photograph by Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar
Site plan. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Ground floor plan. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Elevation. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Elevation. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Elevation. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Details. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Details. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
Details. Transformation of an old tool warehouse into a rural house by MAAV
The rehabilitation projected by MAAV consists of creating a new occasional home in what was once a small cabin. The interior is made up of two floors, the ground floor is a multipurpose area that, depending on the placement of the furniture, can function as a living room or bedroom, the bathroom and kitchen areas are fixed.
The versatility of the pieces that make up the interior allows it to have different uses, as well as multiple cabinets and drawers. Both the new structure, as well as the furniture and finishes of the interior and the facade of the house are made of wood.
The versatility of the pieces that make up the interior allows it to have different uses, as well as multiple cabinets and drawers. Both the new structure, as well as the furniture and finishes of the interior and the facade of the house are made of wood.
Description of project by MAAV
A tiny farm cottage is ment to be come into an occasional appartment through a complete rehabilitation. In this small intervention crystallizes an attitude that seeks to identify rural morphologies and join them at the rate of development of this environment. Urban planning instruments can often endanger these morphologies, leading to the destruction of sometimes secular constructions by increasing building rights. Such is the case of this plot, intended to locate a three-story building that has nothing to do with the scale of the urban fabric of the town of Ojacastro. The owners’ sensitive criteria, together with the willingness of the City Council to allow the intervention, have managed to stop the degradation of this corner of the town avoiding the loss of heritage that would have ment the execution of the urban planning.
The inside is conceived as an habitable piece of furniture: a light balloon-frame house is built, filling the space between the massive stone walls. Reduced surface requires the entire house program to be developed in a single space. Foldable furniture, a wall bed, a kitchen hiding wardrobe, storage, home appliances… All of them hidden in the thick walls, but ready to be used when ever needed. Living room is easily transformed into the dining room and then again into the bedroom.
Regarding the construction, the stone walls are kept and strengthened, so are roof tiles. Seriously harmed wooden framework of the roof is replaced by a similar fishbone-shaped ceiling made out of laminated timber beams.
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Architects
MAAV.- Adrián Martínez Muñoz y Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar.
Collaborators
Builder.- Enrique Uyarra. Carpentry.- Víctor M. Sánchez.
Developer
Rocío Avanzini and Germán Barbier.
Area
Built area.- 40sqm.
Budget
Total Material Execution Budget.- € 83,000. Cost/sqm.- € 2,075/sqm.
Dates
Completion date of the work.- 01/31/2020.
Location
La Paloma Street, Ojacastro, La Rioja, Spain.
Photography
Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar.
Adrián Martínez Muñoz, Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar. MAAV
MAAV is an architecture studio founded by Adrián Martínez Muñoz and Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar in 2020. Its work focuses on the realization of public works through competitions, as well as exceptional private commissions. They combine this practice with academic research and teaching.
Adrián Martínez Muñoz (Seville, 1989) studied Architecture at ETSA Sevilla and ENSA Paris La Villette, graduated from the University of Seville in 2014. His final degree project obtained the highest academic distinction and numerous awards in contests. During the last year of his career, he worked in the MGM-Morales de Giles office in Seville. He has collaborated in the Rafael Moneo study in Madrid from 2015 to 2018. In parallel to his professional practice, he maintains a work as a researcher being a member of the Department of History, Theory and Architectural Composition of the ETSA of Seville in 2018. He has recently been selected by the RCC and the US for a research stay at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar (Bilbao, 1989) studied Architecture at the ETSA in Madrid and the ENSA Paris La Villette, graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015. As a student, he collaborated with various studies such as FRPO, Selgas Cano (in his proposed pavilion for the 2015 Milan Expo) and Moneo Brock. In 2016 he participated in the team formed by IDOM-BIG-BAAS in the development of a proposal for the "Nou Camp Nou" in Barcelona. In 2018 he began a stage in Bilbao in which he collaborated mainly with the Avanzini Palacios studio.
Adrián Martínez Muñoz (Seville, 1989) studied Architecture at ETSA Sevilla and ENSA Paris La Villette, graduated from the University of Seville in 2014. His final degree project obtained the highest academic distinction and numerous awards in contests. During the last year of his career, he worked in the MGM-Morales de Giles office in Seville. He has collaborated in the Rafael Moneo study in Madrid from 2015 to 2018. In parallel to his professional practice, he maintains a work as a researcher being a member of the Department of History, Theory and Architectural Composition of the ETSA of Seville in 2018. He has recently been selected by the RCC and the US for a research stay at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Guillermo Avanzini Alcibar (Bilbao, 1989) studied Architecture at the ETSA in Madrid and the ENSA Paris La Villette, graduated from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015. As a student, he collaborated with various studies such as FRPO, Selgas Cano (in his proposed pavilion for the 2015 Milan Expo) and Moneo Brock. In 2016 he participated in the team formed by IDOM-BIG-BAAS in the development of a proposal for the "Nou Camp Nou" in Barcelona. In 2018 he began a stage in Bilbao in which he collaborated mainly with the Avanzini Palacios studio.
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