Inspired by the landscape. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto
14/09/2021.
[Sacedón] Spain
metalocus, VALERIA OZUNA
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Villa Icaria, designed by the architecture practice Arquitectura al descubierto, is located on the banks of the River Tagus, on the shores of the Sea of Castile. The project was born under the idea of aligning landscape, art and architecture under the same roof, where the sense of ecology and sustainability prevail above all else.
This is the personal project of a family of architects who, fascinated by the place, have wanted to collect the best tradition of sensorial architecture that emerged from the landscape and the land. Spatial continuity, enjoyment, matter, light and shadow are the inspiration for the project.
Architectures that recall the essential, an interesting reading and an intelligent realization, which recalls works such as those of the Greek architect Aris Konstantinidis.
This is the personal project of a family of architects who, fascinated by the place, have wanted to collect the best tradition of sensorial architecture that emerged from the landscape and the land. Spatial continuity, enjoyment, matter, light and shadow are the inspiration for the project.
Architectures that recall the essential, an interesting reading and an intelligent realization, which recalls works such as those of the Greek architect Aris Konstantinidis.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto. Photograph by Imagen Subliminal.
Site plan. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Semi-basement floor. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Ground floor plan. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Upper floor. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Section. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Section. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Section. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
Skecth. Villa Icaria by Arquitectura al descubierto.
The house by Arquitectura al descubierto is surrounded by pine trees, on a land of nine thousand square meters, of holm oaks that frame and sculpt the plot, a landscape where the volumes of the house intertwine with nature on the banks of the Tagus.
The house is developed around two patios; the first welcomes the arrival and organizes the shadows, the second opens up to the sun and the landscape. All the spaces are shaped according to their relationship with these patios and with the exceptional view of the river and the surrounding mountains.
The main space, the living room, opens onto the landscape through a large window; other spaces allow various activities to be carried out contemplating the relationship with the landscape. The interiors combine materials and shades of the Alcarria with an open and bright architecture that incorporates local materials to arrive at an architecture of the essential, with raw finishes, little treated, dialoguing with their essence as materials.
The house is developed around two patios; the first welcomes the arrival and organizes the shadows, the second opens up to the sun and the landscape. All the spaces are shaped according to their relationship with these patios and with the exceptional view of the river and the surrounding mountains.
The main space, the living room, opens onto the landscape through a large window; other spaces allow various activities to be carried out contemplating the relationship with the landscape. The interiors combine materials and shades of the Alcarria with an open and bright architecture that incorporates local materials to arrive at an architecture of the essential, with raw finishes, little treated, dialoguing with their essence as materials.
Description of project by Arquitectura al descubierto
Villa Icaria, recalling the utopian proposal of Étienne Cabet, seeks to establish a new relationship between country and city, creating a meeting place, an opportunity to once again fill the rural environment with contemporary urban activities. Its volumes are intertwined with nature on the banks of the Tagus. Its solids and cavities describe this double quality. The stone, the rural organicism and the shadow, give way to the glass, the light and the synchronic space.
The floor of the building unfolds two hugs, who comes and who lives, creating a small town articulated around two courtyards-squares. These volumes alternate interior spaces of two types: those that are crossed by the landscape and those that are sheltered inside the stone volumes, capturing visual fragments.
The entire construction is the work of local masons and local materials have prevailed in this return to the essential, the finishes are raw: the exposed concrete vaults, the rustic plastering of the interior walls and the polished concrete floors connecting with the logic of the rural.
Permeability, spatial continuity and intimacy follow one another. The house aims, in short, to offer an alternative to the city, but linked to it; a place of return to the origins, creating a refuge where to develop the hyper-connected technological activity of the 21st century.
The project includes different intentions -search for the best views of the river, conservation of existing trees, sustainability, self-sufficiency- to configure a whole with meaning.
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Client
Area
450 sqm.
Dates
2020.
Location
Sacedón, Guadalajara, Spain.
Photography
Cristina Manene Roca, Fernando Orte García, Omar Miranda Garcia. Arquitectura al descubierto
Al Descubierto is an architectural practice based in Madrid, Spain. The studio is led by Cristina Manene Roca, Fernando Orte García, and Omar Miranda García.
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