A good option to live near Valencia without the stress of the big city. Torrent is a city located within the metropolitan area of the city of Valencia, Spain.

It is the largest municipality of the Horta Oest comarca, with 79,843 inhabitants. It is situated some 7 km from Valencia city proper, to which it is connected by metro.
Valencian architects Teresa Carrau Carbonell and Eduard Baviera Llopez, were commissioned to design 6 homes on a plot where there were previously 4, maintaining a heritage-protected facade that should not be demolished.
 

Project description by Teresa Carrau Carbonell y Eduard Baviera Llopez

The drawing board of this project was not exactly a blank sheet. We were faced with different challenges: a volume between medians that had to be reproduced as it was at the beginning, some owners who requested 6 homes where there were 4 before, a facade protected by Heritage that should not be demolished.

The distribution of the program as patio homes was the solution to these challenges. In each of the houses, the clear day area, is located around the light and ventilation of the patio. The necessary distributions serve as storage in houses of small dimensions.

Value items are recycled and their new location is reinterpreted. A few wooden doors are restored in the old ground floor that now serve as shutters for the bedrooms. The “healthy” hydraulic tiles are recycled and are repositioned in the very bright hall next to the current large format stoneware. The frontage is restored respecting its gaps and moldings and its color is updated to maximize light and give it a more contemporary character.

The new attic floor, touching the height of cornice allowed, becomes two studio houses. Here maximum spatial flexibility is required in the minimum habitable space. Bathroom and kitchen are concentrated in a completely gray core, leaving the white and bright space free to be freely used.

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Quantity surveyor.- Rosendo Miquel
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AT4 GRUPO
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464.75m²
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Carrer de Gómez Ferrer, 61. Torrente. Valencia. Spain
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Teresa Carrau Carbonell is an architect by the ETSAV (UPV, 2012), Master in Conservation of Architectural Heritage (UPV 2014) and Doctor in Architecture with outstanding Cum Laude qualification (UPV, 2018) with the thesis “The conservation of the house as Heritage. Alejandro de la Sota's single-family homes ”.

Teresa Carrau Carbonell has studied specialized in Heritage Conservation at the IUAV of Venice (2010-2011) and the Polytechnic of Milan (2016). Finalist in the AADIPA European Heritage Intervention Award.

She has recently published the book "The conservation of the modern house as heritage" with Editorial Design in the Collection of Architecture and Design Texts.

She has been a free profession and in collaboration with the Alberto Burgos Study since 2012. Interested in the conservation of heritage, she has carried out various intervention works on what was built such as the remodeling project of the old El Salvador school in the Municipal Market of Mutxamiel (Alicante, 2018), the housing extension in El Cabanyal declared BIC (Valencia, 2016), the construction of 6 houses in an environment with Environmental Protection and conservation of the protected facade in Torrente (Valencia, 2019) and restoration of the roofs of the Ermita del Calvario in Jávea (Alicante, 2016).
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