House between the pine forest by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
04/01/2017.
[Paterna - Valencia] Spain
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House between the pine forest, built by Fran Sivestre Arquitectos, is a replacement house, which conserves the supporting structure of the original house inside the renewed building, with the new modern volumes aggregated in the tradition of Mediterranean architecture.
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
Sketch. House between the pine forest. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Sketch. House between the pine forest. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Site plan. Previous state. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Ground floor. Previous state. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
General floor. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Main floor. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Ground floor. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Sections. Image © cortesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest. Photograph © Fernando Guerra
House between the pine forest is a housing project by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Situated in Paterna, Valencia, this house surrounded by the garden of pine trees has a long history and a sentimental value to the owners; for that reason, the main task for the architects was to renew and to modernisize the house, conserving its original structure and the memories it brings.
Description of the project by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Twenty-one plateaus and seven volumes tell the story of this house.
The aim of the project is to give a new and even identity to a house belonging to the same family for several generations. The original house formed by the aggregation of different interventions at different times, with different construction systems. Each of the rooms in the house describes a moment in life of this family story. Thus it was essential to maintain the structure, spaces, uses, garden and memories, presenting them in a new way.
The further layer built in the history of this place employs new volumes used for new parts of the program. In this way leisure areas are projected, containing always the scale of the building and are presented as a sort of aggregation of small parts, which draws courtyards and narrows areas, as the traditional Mediterranean architecture does.
The interior respects the intermediate levels system producing a large spatial heterogeneity in rooms with a wide variety of sizes and heights. The supporting structure of the original house is housed inside the furniture that has the same gray shade as the trunks of some of the species that inhabit the garden.
The house is woven both among the trees and among the good memories that live in this pine forest.
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Architect
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Lead architect.- Fran Silvestre.
Collaborating architects
María Masià, Estefanía Soriano, Fran Ayala, Ángel Fito, Pablo Camarasa, Sandra Insa, Santi Dueña, Ricardo Candela, David Sastre, Sevak Asatrián, Álvaro Olivares, Paloma Márquez, Eduardo Sancho, Esther Sanchís, Vicente Picó, Erika Angulo, Alba Monfort, Ruben March
Collaborators
Interior design.- Alfaro Hofmann
Structural engineer.- Josep Ramón Solé | Windmill
Project manager.- Studio 2
Building engineer.- Carlos García
Location
Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Site area
3106.52 sqm
Built area
722.32 sqm
Photography
FRAN SILVESTRE ARQUITECTOS
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is a studio based in Valencia made up a multidisciplinary group of architects founded in 2005 by architect Fran Silvestre. Fran Silvestre (born 5 July 1976) is a Spanish architect. After having graduated in Architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia in 2001, he specialized in urban planning at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven a year later. Then, he won a scholarship to work at the studio of the Pritzker Prize architect from Portugal, Alvaro Siza, which is located in Oporto, and have ever since undertaken projects in cooperation with him. He is also dedicated to teach as professor at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia since 2006, and the Universidad Europea since 2009.
Influenced by the above mentioned architect, Alvaro Siza, or the sculptor Andreu Alfaro, among others, the studio realizes series of projects that take into account factors such as, modulation, serialization or light. Thus, giving rise to buildings of high purity, using constant innovative materials and technologies. Since its foundation, it has focused on the developement and implementation of small-scale projects, for instance, The Atrium House (2009) or the House at the mountainside of a Castle (2010). It also carries out multidisciplinary work while designing objects like the Alis chair, collaborating with other studios such as Alfaro Hofmann, which is dedicated to interior design.
