Traditional house in Alosno, Borrero House by Studio Wet
19/07/2019.
[Alosno - Huelva] Spain
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Studio Wet designs the Borrero House, whose program is distributed on one floor with a facade seven meters high and forty deep. It has a traditional construction system, based on load-bearing walls with a single bay parallel to the façade.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Borrero House by Studio Wet. Photograph by Fernando Alda.
Site plan. Borrero House by Studio Wet.
Plans. Borrero House by Studio Wet.
Section. Borrero House by Studio Wet.
Section. Borrero House by Studio Wet.
Section. Borrero House by Studio Wet.
Diagram. Borrero House by Studio Wet.
The Studio Wet project keeps separate the uses of the house, that is, the rooms and the garage are separated by a patio that works as well as an entrance. In this way, the program is obliged not to break the unit of the volume.
Description of project by Studio Wet
Alosno is a small village in "Andévalo", a subregion of the Province of Huelva in the southwest of Spain. It is a place known for a special type of Flamenco music called Fandango, world famous charcuterie Jamón Ibérico, and close proximity to the mines of Tharsis, and thus to its english colonial architecture.
In this context we were commissioned to design a single family house, described as "traditional" by our clients. It was to accommodate an extremely compartmentalized plan that included a free standing garage and the desire to have the home be a single story building on a given 7 x 40 meter plot.
This was again a good opportunity to approach these contingencies with a certain level of critical pragmatism, as we often term our approach, beyond the cliches that we all bring to the design table.
We decide to use that traditional concept as applied to the pure contruction of it, using a system of load bearing brick walls parallels to the façade, a traditional system we do not typically use. This bearing wall system allow us to turn the tide, and to transfer the main façade from the short length to the long side of 40 meters. One single Family House, with a single space in between bearing walls, and covered by a single pitch roof spanning from 6,5 to 7,5 meter along the 40 meters length.
The residential program is displayed along rooms aligned to the new main façade, whilst the garage occupies the former main façade, at the opposite side of an intermediate courtyard that serves as main entrance. Although it was necessary to split the garage from the rest of the residence, one of our design goals was to promote a unified perception for the bulk of house.
The same intention moved us to rhythmically shape the outer face with curves, in a way to hold better, aesthetically and statically, the big pitched roof. These curved brick works are made out of two types of brick, some full rectangular and other canted, in an attempt to improve the perception of a 40 meters long wall, transforming monotony into architectural order. We hoped to be successful on this.
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Architects
Studio Wet.- Jose Gómez Mora, Daniel Montes.
Collaborators
Anna Marchant, Isabella Duffield, Jane Ching-Yee Ling, Matthew Forbes-Yandi, Anabel Orellana, Rohit Nandha. Statics.- Pedro Lobato. Elec&Mechanical.- Víctor Silveira. Quantity Surveyor.- Jose Maria Sanchez Garcia.
Promoter
Juan Antonio Borrero Calvo.
Constructor
Construcciones En General Borrero Y Redondo SLL.
Fechas
Project.- 2017. Building.- 2018-2019.
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Studio Wet
Studio Wet is an Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design practice based in Seville, Spain. Studio Wet is Jose Gómez Mora and Daniel Montes Estrada. Our career reflects a diverse range of projects based on a strong contemporary design, open to collaboration and interdisciplinary work.
Since 2012 Studio Wet also runs in Switzerland with its partner office: Cadrage Landschaftsarchitekten, directed by Emmanuel Tsolakis.
Studio Wet: "We are convinced that infrastructures, and specially water infrastructures, are basically the core areas of a landscape architect ´s logical reasoning. Moreover, we are convinced that water is the actual landscape program, and that it is worthwile to do some mental work on it."
Since 2012 Studio Wet also runs in Switzerland with its partner office: Cadrage Landschaftsarchitekten, directed by Emmanuel Tsolakis.
Studio Wet: "We are convinced that infrastructures, and specially water infrastructures, are basically the core areas of a landscape architect ´s logical reasoning. Moreover, we are convinced that water is the actual landscape program, and that it is worthwile to do some mental work on it."
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