Memory of the old city. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura
22/04/2020.
[Elche - Alicante] Spain
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Casa Carmen is located face to a square in the old Raval de Sant Joan de Elche, which has its first traces in 1265, of Muslim origin. Elche is a city in southeast Spain knowns for its Vila Murada old town and the Palmeral of Elche, a vast palm grove.
The house, designed by architecture firm Rocamora, faces south, towards the square, formerly called carrer Forn Fondo, because there was an oven and many streets were named after what was in them.
The house, designed by architecture firm Rocamora, faces south, towards the square, formerly called carrer Forn Fondo, because there was an oven and many streets were named after what was in them.
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel CabreraCasa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura. Photograph by Miguel Angel Cabrera
Ground floor plan. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
First floor plan. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
Second floor plan. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
Roof plan. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
Section. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
Section. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
Façade elevation. Casa Carmen by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.
Carmen, the owner, lives on the top floor looking for a controlled intimacy, a relationship with the plaza, but with lighting and natural sun that enters from the east, the party wall, and from the south, through the façade, through a latticework. of perforated steel with motifs that recall the graphics that decorated tiles and now a pattern for cutting the sheet metal by numerical control.
The house has a small garden, a sunny terrace, a living room and a kitchen that looks out onto a small patio. 32m² optimized but necessary for a friendly and comfortable relationship with the exterior.
The house has a small garden, a sunny terrace, a living room and a kitchen that looks out onto a small patio. 32m² optimized but necessary for a friendly and comfortable relationship with the exterior.
Project description by Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura
Casa Carmen is located in a widening square in the old Raval de Sant Joan de Elche, which has its first traces in 1265, of Muslim origin. It still has the taste of yesteryear, quiet alleys, with activity and life impregnated in history, with the special cadence of the neighborhood.
The Carmen house faces south, towards the square, formerly called carrer Forn Fondo, because there was an oven and many streets were named after what was in them. People in the neighbourhood say that people used to live with the door open, in the street. Life is different now.
Carmen lives on the upper floor looking for a controlled intimacy, a relationship with the square, but with natural light and sunlight entering from the east, through the dividing wall, and from the south, through the façade, through a latticework drilled with motifs that used to graffiti tiles and now it is a steel sheet cut by numerical control, but with the same ornaments that let air and light through, bringing the memory of the place.
It also has a small garden, a sunny terrace, a living room and kitchen overlooking a small courtyard. 32m² optimized but sufficient for a friendly and comfortable relationship with the outside.
The intermediate floor of Carmen is the bedroom area, one on the inside and one on the façade. The façade is illuminated through the lattice, which filters the light and sifts it, controls intimacy through the same perforated plant plot, made with 1cm thick veneer, cut by numerical control. This mashrabiya draws the light inside, filters it and at the same time allows ventilation.
Now the street and the house are related in a different way than in the past.
On the ground floor Carmen makes small family gatherings or keeps the car, anteroom of the house, contact with the square, now more protected and impermeable, but that when those family gatherings are made the door opens wide and the street goes into the house, recovering the house and the public space its identity of yesteryear, with a close neighbourly relationship...
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Architects
Area
158 m²
Dates
2018
Manufacturers
Roca, Finsa, Porcelanosa, Tress, Bticino, Tecnal.
Photography
Ángel Luis Rocamora Ruiz
Ángel Luis Rocamora Ruiz, in February 1999 concluded studies Arquitecto Técnico in the TFC , with work: Estudio Histórico y Constructivo de “LA CASA ESTUDIO DEL PINTOR JOSÉ MARÍA LÓPEZ MEZQUITA”. He studied Artes Aplicadas a la Escultura 2000-01. In July 2007 studies concluded Arquitecto Superior in the TFC , with the work "Enosección: directrices para la elaboración de vino y enoturismo en las cooperativas del Medio Vinalopó”.
In 2012 completed Master studies in sustainable architecture and urbanism in the TFM, in paper " La práctica arquitectónica del acontecimiento temporal".
He has worked for 9 years with architects Carmen Pérez Molpecerez, Javier Gironella Pallarés and Efigenio Giménez García development projects and project managers. Since 2000 works as a freelancer, and author.
In 2010/2011 , 2012/13 and 2013/14 was appointed Colaborador Honorifico in the degree of Architecture , Departamento de Expresión Gráfica y Cartográfica de la Universidad de Alicante, for the subjects of Proyecto Arquitectónicos I-II and Análisis de Formas I (AIGI).
