beSTe arkitektura is the author of Jajaus, a compact housing located on a slope, and which is arranged in an optimal orientation for later use as a greenhouse. A residence defined in a cash volume of 15 x 7 m, reminiscent of the traditional farmhouses of the Basque country.
In this house of beSTe arkitektura, we find a greenhouse on the main volume.

This upper level is covered by a material that allows communication from inside the house with the wooded surroundings. Likewise, the house combines the constructive industrial processes with the traditional ones that are appreciated at the time of assembling the house.
 

Description of project by beSTe arkitektura

Jajaus departs from the need of a compact home on a sloping plot. The low occupation of land for the floor plan leaves the south-west oriented part of the terrain for future use as a vegetable garden. Three levels define the project, different levels that offer different experiences of living.

The one most related to the urban experience would be the entrance level of the house. This is the level of access to the house where the program for the family is deployed. It is the most defined program of the project, with the most traditional functions of a family house, placed in a rectangular space of 15 x 7 m.

Above the entrance level is the greenhouse. The greenhouse is an empty space that will be occupied according to future needs. This space reminds of the attics of the Basque farmhouses where a space under a naked structure served as storage and as a drying space for the crops and fruits. A space that in turn transformed into the best place for games and children's adventures. The translucency of the closure material of the greenhouse relates the space with the oak treetops that surround the house, and beyond, to the south-west, the views of the valley and the mountains of Bizkaia open up.

Below the level of the family home, there is a guest apartment and a space of the house that will have a direct relationship with the garden. The basic construction of the house mixes industrialized systems with artisan solutions in an assembly of its parts.

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Architect.-Ibon Salaberria (beSTe arkitektura agentzia bat).
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Itziar Imaz, Izaskun Narbaiza, BASA arquitectura.
Estructura.-Jon Begiristain.
Aparejador.-Asier Telleria.
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ABI Eraikuntzak Koop.
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308 m².
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2018
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BeSTe Arkitektura, founded by Ibon Salaberria, is a Spanish architecture studio based in  Zarautz-Gipuzkoa. Ibon Salaberria is an architect by the ETSA of San Sebastián (2003) and finalist in the first final project of iguzzini Spain. He completed the Master's Degree in Participation and Community Development (2015) by the University of the Basque Country.

Between 1998 and 2005 he worked at Arteleku (former art center of San Sebastian) as a resident "artist". During this period he coordinated the international workshop "bizi garen espazioen eraldakuntza" and the interdisciplinary laboratory "labitaciones". He was also part of the editorial team of the "Project of expansion and rehabilitation of Arteleku" between 1999 and 2003 with BGM architects.

In 2006 he founded the TOKI arkitekturak studio. TOKI's work has been selected in several exhibitions and catalogs since its inception: In 2007, he was selected in the exhibition "JAE (Young Architects of Spain)" and has traveled to Madrid, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Stockholm, New York, Chicago, Washington, Dallas and other cities. In the same year, TOKI was selected for the "arquia-próxima" catalog where the works of 128 very young Spanish architects are exhibited. In 2007 he was a finalist in the "Awards of the Official College of Architects Vasco Navarro" in the category of housing.

In 2008, in the publication of "44 Young International Architects" in the selection by Grupo Vía, where works by 44 architects from Europe and America are exhibited. In 2009 he was part of the exhibition "Reflections.

The corridor in the collective housing "held in Arquería de Nuevos Ministerios. At the same time, TOKI was selected in the list-map of 40 studies for digital monographic publication 2G Dossier Jóvenes Arquitectos Españoles.   He is Professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSA of San Sebastian since 2007. Coordinator and Commissioner of "City and Other Policies" at the Center for Contemporary Culture of San Sebastian 2013-2018.

In 2015 he founded beSTe Arkitektura Agentzia Bat. In 2016 he obtained the "bronze" award in the American Architecture Prize in the interior design category by TABA. In 2016 he won the Ascer Awards for the interior design of TABA. In 2019 he is selected in the architecture FAD awards by JAjaus.
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Published on: May 21, 2019
Cite: "Jajaus, productive single-family housing by beSTe arkitektura" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/jajaus-productive-single-family-housing-beste-arkitektura> ISSN 1139-6415
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