Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. The Mediterranean Garden
01/12/2017.
[Rocafort] Spain
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The house is located in a pine forest in Rocafort, Valencia. The work of Ramón Esteve's studio in this project contrasts the verticality of the pines that form the forest with the horizontality of the planes that makes the house and mimics with the forest using materials similar to those of the forest itself.
Exterior view. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Access. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Detail. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Dining room. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Living room. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Staircase. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Bed room. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Bath room. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Night view. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
Ground floor plan. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve.
First floor plan. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve.
Elevation. Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve.
Home in the pine forest by Ramón Esteve. Photograph © Mariela Apollonio
The plot is situated in a very large residential area that has a large difference of height to which the house must adapt. The appearance of a wide platform that adapts to the topography solves the problem of the difference of height, it also provides the house a viewpoint from which the user can enjoy the place.
Inside, the home designed by Ramon Esteve tries to make a continuous and practical common space, ensuring that all spaces have a unique communication.
Inside, the home designed by Ramon Esteve tries to make a continuous and practical common space, ensuring that all spaces have a unique communication.
Description of project by Ramon Esteve
The home in the Pine Forest is located in an extended residential area, between spacious green areas, woodlands and pine trees. The plot itself, which has a significant topographic slope, holds a large area of natural Mediterranean garden with a cluster of pines, in its lowest area. The housing is located at the top, dominating the environment through a counterpoint relationship with the garden.
The project responds to a geometry of contrasts based on this theme: the nature provides the vertical position of pine trees, while the architecture spreads out oblong and horizontal, as a great viewpoint in its setting.
The house extends as a long continuous tiered balcony, creating a platform that adapts itself to the topography. The whole interior space opens and orients itself to the inherent views of the plot.
The spatial continuity is another of the features that characterizes this project. The space of the common areas is almost unique, distributed by permeable elements, such as the fireplace or the staircase.
The house is protected on its north facade, facing the access from the street, by controlling the openings, while the south side is open and transparent to the pines, protected by a long porch.
Using the palette of natural colours, crude tones, browns, greens… for this, the materials are displayed in their natural state, using wood, natural stone and visible concrete.
The concrete is subjected to a process of tinting to acquire the tones of the stone from the environment, trying to mimic its colour and texture with the natural material, accepting the irregularities and water as a part of the integration process.
Each space in the house seeks practicality: The plant of access to the housing, which hangs like a spacious balcony over its environment, holds the common areas and master bedroom.
The ground floor which is within steps from garden has living spaces that have direct access to the outside. The landscape is formed this way to allow immediate connection with the natural world.
The first floor is converted into a viewpoint, a private and intimate area with the sole use as a studio, with the purpose of revealing itself as a space in which you find serenity.
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Architect
Ramón Esteve
Collaborators
Architecture.- Anna Boscà, Estefanía Pérez, Jacobo Mompó, María Martí. Collaborators.- REE Tudi Soriano. Quantity survayor.- Emilio Pérez
Venue
Rocafort, Valencia. Spain
Area
571.40 m²
Date
2017
Ramón Esteve. Ramón Esteve Estudio
Ramón Esteve. In 1991, Ramón Esteve founded the studio with the certainty that architecture was a global discipline. Since then, we have been building a professional team united by the search of a common objective, generating design solutions to unique spaces, objects and brands. Today, the studio is a place where architects, designers and creatives work together to develop signature projects.
Architecture and design are complementary disciplines for us that enrich one another and in some way, are inseparable. They begin every project by investigating all its design and architectural parameters with the aim of achieving a result that produces the maximum levels of clarity, simplicity, consistency and harmony.
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