Renovation and extension of Enroque House

Description of the project by Estudio Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura

This small house, with three façades and 4 x 6,70 meters in every floor, is located, between narrow stairs, in El Barrio Antiguo, in the hillsides of Benacantil, Alicante.

This project arises from the desire of  Inmaculada for having a new housing, near his work, which solves his current needs, and that it allows, even, in the ground floor, to project a mini apartment with autonomy regard to the main housing, because of if one of his sons wants to visit her.

The project appears as a rehabilitation with extension of the existing housing, which was practically in ruins.

In his interior, the new structure, wich is solved with HEB girders and deck of sheet, appears undressed and honest, as rails and stairs, finished with galvanized sheet and  metallic tubular rod.

In the ground floor level, every opportunity is studied to be able to build a kitchen, bath, cupboard, bedroom and lounge-dining room, with an required spatial continuity due to limited space.

The second floor level is the day zone of the house of Inmaculada: kitchen-dining room-lounge, and takes the stairs as main piece, which develops as sequence of permeable and metallic steps, interlaced with steel ropes, in the shape of an harp, which do the work of a banister.

In the third floor level we can find principal bedroom, study, dressing room and bath.

On the façade, the perforations are distributed strategically for, according to the situation, to illuminate the desk, to use as natural light support to the zone of the sofa, to illuminate intimately the zone of the bath or in case of the cover of the tower, to work as a great skylight wich impregnates with light all the house. This holes, strategically studied, works as crossed, hygienic and revitalizing ventilation, circulating the air between his façades north and south.

Towards the street, the aim of this holes is about to getting different situations: reaching the first beams of the Sun of the East, get low looks towards the entry of San Roque street, or to avoid sills. Here the holes constructs the oblique look, the façade models itself to be able to clear the physical and restricted situation that comes him imposed by his urban configuration.

The tiled vase and the formal image with continuous and holes, perforated in the façade, protected with latticeworks of metallic stuck-up, permeable sheet, a mediating image awards between the local tradition and the vocation firmly contemporary of the house The Castling and of his owner, Inmaculada.

Text.- Estudio Rocamora Diseño y Arquitectura.