House R+ by OOIIO
15/06/2016.
[Mora] Spain
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
metalocus, ÁLVARO LAMAS
This is a Single Family housing project designed as a work of spaces crystallization.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue y Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue y Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Inside view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Exterior view. House R+ by OOIIO. Photography © Eugenio H. Vegue and Francisco Sepúlveda.
Diagram. House R+ by OOIIO.
Basement. House R+ by OOIIO.
Entrance. House R+ by OOIIO.
First floor. House R+ by OOIIO.
Axonometric. House R+ by OOIIO.
Basement floor plan. House R+ by OOIIO.
Entrance fllor plan. House R+ by OOIIO.
First floor plan. House R+ by OOIIO.
Elevation. House R+ by OOIIO.
Elevation. House R+ by OOIIO.
Long section. House R+ by OOIIO.
Long section. House R+ by OOIIO.
Long section.House R+ by OOIIO.
Cross section. House R+ by OOIIO.
OOIIO Architecture has applied varying tones of stonework to the irregularly stacked blocks that make up this house in central Spain. The building comprises a series of rectilinear volumes that are staggered in arrangement, vary in scale, and boast different tones and textures. The Madrid studio wanted the surfaces to resemble the faceted crystal formations found in minerals, so wrapped them in a combination of neutral-toned travertine and sandstone.
Description of the project by OOIIO Architecture
The site is on a narrow and quiet street on the center of Mora, a village in La Mancha, in central Spain. This location, a bit hide for the city inhabitants, will determine the project concept. The house plays with this “discrete urban situation”, surrounded by other quite simple buildings, becoming a little find, something different that the pedestrian will discover by chance, on the same way that a geologist finds this precious mineral that he has been looking for a long time and suddenly shows up on the most unexpected place.
The different spaces have a tectonic configuration, sticking each other, like rock crystallization, coming from a great central space where the whole home revolves around. This space is like a double high covered yard, connected to the other “crystals” making the house. It has also several points where the natural light can get inside, with a wooden stair as the main spatial objet embracing everything.
The exterior façade materials (a combination of travertine and sandstone) provides to the building a stony look, following its mineral concept, and getting a quiet and elegant colors and textures combination, appropriate to not blend with the environment.
On the back house façade we will find an open air yard, also finished with stone, with a pond that will contribute to generate this quietness perception, exactly where the main bedrooms, the living room and the kitchen will be open. The advanced building energy systems will make this house quite energy efficient and green.
House R+ is a little find on a narrow street of La Mancha region, a home defined from the crystallization of its spaces.
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Architects
OOIIO Architecture
Collaborators
Joaquin Millan Villamuelas, Sergio González Gómez, Jesús Reyes García, Sergio Velandrino Poveda, Magdalena Polvorinos Caeiro.
Structures
Consultora CPE, Juan Vallejo.
Facilities
M7AI Arquitectura e Instalaciones, Mariano Traver.
Civil Engineer
José Tomás Fernández Dorado.
Construction Safely Manager
José Tomás Fernández Dorado.
Client
Private
Builder
Cosmos Servicios Inmobiliarios s.l.
Area
241,6 sqm
Status
Built
Joaquín Millán Villamuelas. OOIIO
Joaquín Millán Villamuelas is architect for the Polytechnic University of Madrid, ETSAM. After working and learning with some of the most important and influential contemporary architects like Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas, he founded OOIIO in 2009 as a laboratory for city and architecture able of providing architectural quality and uniqueness to each job.
He develops his doctorate in architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, ETSAM, where he has taught architectural design, as well as in several seminaries and universities in Europe and Latin America. Joaquín Millán has given numerous lectures showing OOIIO´s work and his projects have been exhibited and published in many magazines, books and blogs and awarded in several countries.
