Light as a scenographic space. House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos
15/02/2024.
[Sanlucar De Barrameda - Cadiz] Spain
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
metalocus, JORGE MARTINEZ
The union between architects Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos, to design a single-family home, has meant that a young London family has a new home near La Jara beach, in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz.
The environment in which the house is built is characterized by its proximity to the Atlantic, the Guadalquivir, and Doñana, in a territory with intense and warm light belonging to the municipality of Sanlúcar. This natural context, along with its post-pandemic approach, conditioned the form of the home in which an attempt has been made to dilute the limits between the interior and exterior.
The environment in which the house is built is characterized by its proximity to the Atlantic, the Guadalquivir, and Doñana, in a territory with intense and warm light belonging to the municipality of Sanlúcar. This natural context, along with its post-pandemic approach, conditioned the form of the home in which an attempt has been made to dilute the limits between the interior and exterior.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Juanca Lagares.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
Site plan. House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos.
Floor plan. House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos.
Section plan. House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos.
Elevation plan. House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos.
Casa en la Jara is a single-family housing project designed by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos, where the family's daily life flows through a porticoed and semi-open patio that is established in the heart of the house. The patio creates a space where you can enjoy the place where you can smell and hear the sea, and feel the salt and the western breeze under the delicate presence of a century-old olive tree.
The building is built from noble materials such as concrete and wood, which gives warmth to the space. Light is the main element of the project, since with the passing of the hours and the position of the sun, it generates different games of light and shadows inside the house, giving the interior a scenographic value of shadows fused with the vertical elements of Solar protection.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
The building is built from noble materials such as concrete and wood, which gives warmth to the space. Light is the main element of the project, since with the passing of the hours and the position of the sun, it generates different games of light and shadows inside the house, giving the interior a scenographic value of shadows fused with the vertical elements of Solar protection.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
Project description by Gonzalo Cantos and Alejandro Ortiz
The daily life of the family flows through a porticoed and semi-open patio set as the heart of the house, a kind of ‘genius loci’ sounding board of this privileged environment where the Atlantic, Guadalquivir River, and Doñana Natural Park merge to give us the warm light of Sanlucar, especially unique at the end of each day.
The patio is embraced by the house to create its imaginary, idealized version of the place where smell and hear the sea, and feel the salt and the western breeze under the delicate presence of a century-old olive tree.
House in La Jara by Alejandro Ortiz and Gonzalo Cantos. Photograph by Alvaro Rodriguez.
The house incorporates noble materials such as concrete and wood that provide warmth to the spaces. Its textures come to life throughout the day thanks to the rhythmic movement of light, pointing to the scenographic value of the fused shadows and sun protection elements.
A garden with a local essence and tropical touches is called into a scene, seeking balance and beauty between built geometry and the organic forms of nature.
The house in short shows the desire to accompany our family, in their intermittent but voluntary exile from the big city, through an architecture of the senses.
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Architects
Collaborators
Tedeco Ingenieros, Ava Ingenieria, Plan Ve Paisajismo.
Builder
San Telmo.
Area
240 sqm.
Dates
Built.- 2022.
Location
La Jara, Sanlucar De Barrameda, Cadiz, Spain.
Photography
Alejandro Ortiz
Alejandro Ortiz is an architect with a double professional degree, from the University of Seville in Spain in 2006, and from the University of Florianópolis in Brazil in 2014, born in Cádiz in May 1979.
His projects are divided according to his passions between architecture, from the action of his work, and landscape and photography in a reflective and contemplative way.
He has a full commitment to architecture because he believes in its ability to improve our quality of life, our daily life, solving from the simplest or pragmatic issues to the most complex or subjective ones.
His desire is to be able to offer a personalized service that responds to needs, presenting functional, environmental, technical, economic and design solutions that exceed any initial expectations that the client may have.
His projects are divided according to his passions between architecture, from the action of his work, and landscape and photography in a reflective and contemplative way.
He has a full commitment to architecture because he believes in its ability to improve our quality of life, our daily life, solving from the simplest or pragmatic issues to the most complex or subjective ones.
His desire is to be able to offer a personalized service that responds to needs, presenting functional, environmental, technical, economic and design solutions that exceed any initial expectations that the client may have.
Gonzalo Cantos Ma I arquitecturas
Ma I Arquitecturas is an architecture studio founded by Gonzalo Cantos, architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville in 2005, which is made up of a transversal and multidisciplinary team of professionals and consultants passionate about architecture, the city and the landscape. .
With a passion for what is different, Gonzalo has traveled through a dozen cities on different continents for academic and professional reasons. This need to constantly explore new worlds has allowed it to incorporate tools to understand and propose architectures from the social, economic and environmental complexity of our global world.
Committed to training and knowledge exchange, he has been a guest professor at several universities, as well as a speaker at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the European Regional Science Association or the American Institute of Architects.
His interest in research and dissemination has led him to develop extensive work curating exhibitions and forums such as 'Die Gumperdoferstrasse', Vienna, 2010; AIA Annual Conference, Seville, 2012; or the AIA International Conference, Moscow, 2017.
With a passion for what is different, Gonzalo has traveled through a dozen cities on different continents for academic and professional reasons. This need to constantly explore new worlds has allowed it to incorporate tools to understand and propose architectures from the social, economic and environmental complexity of our global world.
Committed to training and knowledge exchange, he has been a guest professor at several universities, as well as a speaker at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the European Regional Science Association or the American Institute of Architects.
His interest in research and dissemination has led him to develop extensive work curating exhibitions and forums such as 'Die Gumperdoferstrasse', Vienna, 2010; AIA Annual Conference, Seville, 2012; or the AIA International Conference, Moscow, 2017.
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