Reshaping the Landscape. Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio
19/09/2017.
[Fontanars dels Alforins - Valencia] Spain
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A house that seeks maximum integration of the landscape and the context, due to its border location between a pine area and the vineyards of the estate, located in Valencian lands, uses only two materials to mark the housing program: concrete and wood.
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio. Photographer © Mariela Apollonio
Sketch. Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio.
Axonometric. Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio.
Axonometric roof. Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio.
Green section. Cottage in the Vineyard by Ramón Esteve Estudio.
Ramon Esteve Estudio have designed this rural house located between and built in the middle of the vineyard on almost flat ground. A single-story longitudinal building that tries to interfere as little as possible with nature aligning with the natural elements that make up the landscape.
Description of project by Ramon Esteve Estudio
The house is located in the municipality of Fontanars, on the outskirts of the village surrounded by large acreages. The project seeks the maximum environmental and landscape integration because of its border location between a zone of pine forests and the grapevine fields, being diluted practically in the vegetation. To this contributes the decision to develop the entire program in a single plant, in addition to the material chosen, which provides shade consistent with the place.
“This countryside retreat generated from the idea of a standard traditional rural house with its pitched roof, applying a new concept of space afterwards”.
Ramón Esteve
GENERATING FORMS
The geometry consists in mapping the line edge that defines the traditional house to extrude it after, forming an envelope under which will be developed throughout the project. That line-concept, turned into a long concrete shell that organizes the dwellings ́ program and is crossed transversely by the rooms materialized as pine wood containers.
The project seeks the maximum integration landscape and environment, due to the location of the border between an area of pine forest and the fields.
“The house is composed by two monolithic structures forming two large blocks made of different materials, the first one made of white concrete, both inside and outside, cut across by structural surfaces made of thermally-modified pine wood”.
Ramón Esteve
ENVIROMENT AND LANDSCAPE
The access to the plot is through a path surrounded by olive trees. In the background, you can see the house, hidden by groups of cypresses, poplars and pine trees. You enter the house through one of the wooden structures. The concrete central space is a fluid common area dominated by a big replace towards which all the rooms are opened. From the inside, the views are framed by the pine wood surfaces that intersect the central space. By being considered a second residence, both these structures and the porches can be totally locked when the house is not inhabited.
SPACES
A wide porch, placed at the end of the house, completes the home. It provides a lounge area linked to a dual landscape, on one side the immediate views of the pine forest, on the other side those of the vineyard. The house is modulated by the timber planks of 20 cm. that built the wooden boxes and also the timber formwork for pouring concrete.
Also the pinewood furniture and the carpentry for this retreat have been specifically designed following the same modulation. Both materials, white concrete and timber, are coherent with the nature of the structure.
GREEN TECHNOLOGY
“Environmentally, it follows the guidelines for a passive house. Appropriate means are available to take advantage of renewable energy through the use of panels of solar energy, energy supply from biomass or collecting and storing drinkable rain water”.
Ramón Esteve
The energy saving is optimized thanks to the materials used and a thermal insulation of rock wool with great insulating ability. Also, the installation of lighting is energy-effcient due to a control system that optimizes the use of natural light.
More information
Architects
Ramón Esteve
Collaborators
Collaborating Architects.- Anna Boscà, Victor Ruiz. Collaborators.- Tudi Soriano, Patricia Campos. Design Collaborators.- Nacho Poveda. Quantity Surveyor.- Emilio Pérez
Project Manager
Gonzalo Llin
Builder
COVISAL FUTUR SL
Area
414.74 m²
Dates
Project.- 2012. Completion Date.- 2016
Production and audiovisual
Alfonso Calza
Ramón Esteve. Ramón Esteve Estudio
Ramón Esteve. In 1991, Ramón Esteve founded the studio with the certainty that architecture was a global discipline. Since then, we have been building a professional team united by the search of a common objective, generating design solutions to unique spaces, objects and brands. Today, the studio is a place where architects, designers and creatives work together to develop signature projects.
Architecture and design are complementary disciplines for us that enrich one another and in some way, are inseparable. They begin every project by investigating all its design and architectural parameters with the aim of achieving a result that produces the maximum levels of clarity, simplicity, consistency and harmony.
