Traditional vision in a house. Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos
14/04/2023.
[Sevilla] Spain
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Spanish architecture studio Daroca Arquitectos completed the renovation of a house that was in poor condition due to its abandonment. The house, which consisted of a structure of more than 100 years, in the city of Arahal, is located in the south of the province of Seville, Spain.
The project deploys the program in an area of 280m² and although initially the integral rehabilitation was chosen, after a detailed review it was seen that part of it posed a clear structural danger, for which reason only the main walls were maintained, the traditional essence of the types of country houses in the area, projecting itself with a refined abstraction that brought it closer to a more contemporary vision.
The project deploys the program in an area of 280m² and although initially the integral rehabilitation was chosen, after a detailed review it was seen that part of it posed a clear structural danger, for which reason only the main walls were maintained, the traditional essence of the types of country houses in the area, projecting itself with a refined abstraction that brought it closer to a more contemporary vision.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Plan and deck. Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos.
Sections. Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos.
Previous condition. Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos.
Isometric view. Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos.
Faced with the impossibility of consolidating the existing building, the Daroca Arquitectos project consolidates the viable parts and creates new spaces that invert the system of solids and voids, creating a U-shaped single-story bay embracing the old building, thus that a new building is created that is born from the previous house.
Part of the old roof was dismantled and the Arab tile of the rest is maintained, leaving the white walls as a model that helps to visually connect with the traditional image of Andalusian farmhouses and wineries, the house thanks to its spatiality and the large windows allows a great play of natural light with great luminosity in all its rooms.
Part of the old roof was dismantled and the Arab tile of the rest is maintained, leaving the white walls as a model that helps to visually connect with the traditional image of Andalusian farmhouses and wineries, the house thanks to its spatiality and the large windows allows a great play of natural light with great luminosity in all its rooms.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Description of project by Daroca Arquitectos
The existing building dating from 1920 was in bad condition due to its abandonment. A house consisting of three parallel bays by load-bearing walls, saving spans of between 3.5m. and 4.5m. The oldest to the East, covered by ceramic tile where it excels a chimney and of pairs of wood, brick board in good state. Its continuity in the higher West, was of worse constructive quality. The intermediate slabs of the second floor were deteriorated.
The first intention was the integral restoration of the existing building, the traditional single-family house as it was in the past, with replacement of floors and roofs, as well as underpinning of foundations and new structural elements, but given the great technical and economic difficulties to carry out this type of intervention, as well as the structural danger it entailed, a different concept started.
Rural house El Cercao by Daroca Arquitectos. Photography by Fernando Alda.
Invert the uses: the most immediate action to support walls and roofs of the existing building. The new house, a single-storey U-shaped building, embraces from the west and supports the old building, so that it emerges on the new one, while structurally consolidating the old walls by tying strapping and footings.
What in the past where rooms of the previous house would become the free spaces or courtyards of the new house. The walls are maintained and braced, part of the roofs are demolished and others are restored, as is the case of the most primitive and the wooden pairs remain as a pergola.
To the outside, image of white walls with few openings, surrounds the inclined planes of ceramic tile, wooden pergolas or whitewashed walls. Classic image of farmhouses of Andalusia that establishes a natural dialogue between new and old architecture.
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Architects
Daroca Arquitectos. Architects.- José Luis Daroca Bruño and Jaime Daroca Guerrero.
Area
280m².
Dates
December 2022.
Location
Arahal - Sevilla, Spain.
Photography
Fernando Alda.
Jose Luis Daroca Bruño, Jaime Daroca Guerrero. Daroca Arquitectos
Daroca Arquitectos is a Spanish architecture studio founded by the architects Jose Luis Daroca Bruño and Jaime Daroca Guerrero.
Jose Luis Daroca Bruño graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville in 1982. He obtained distinction in his final project and the Royal Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla award for the best academic record. From 1985 to 1991 he was an architect for the Department of Culture for research projects on Historical Heritage. From 1991 to 1993 he was an advisory architect to the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage in research projects. He has a doctorate in architecture from the University of Seville in 2012. Since 2018 he has been a Full Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Seville. He has received various awards in architecture competitions, highlighting: 1 National Award for the banks of the Guadalquivir as it passes through Coria. International for the expansion and remodeling of the Prado Museum Madrid Ministry of Culture 1997. Finalist. national for the construction of 114 vpo for university students. 1st prize. He has published articles and his own work in monographic books and various national and international publications.
Jaime Daroca Guerrero graduated from the Seville School of Architecture and obtained a master's degree from Harvard University. Jaime has worked in various architecture studios, including e2a Architekten in Zurich, Switzerland and Daroca Arquitectos in Seville. He has taught at institutions such as Columbia University in New York and Harvard. He is currently an associate professor of Projects at ETSAM, and at the Academy of Arts University, San Francisco, USA. His professional work has been exhibited in international institutions such as MoMA in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennales, Spain, and Chile, and the Lisbon Triennial; as well as in monographic exhibitions in Spain and Romania. He has also been included in prestigious publications such as Architecture magazine (COAM), or Cuadernos COAS.
Jose Luis Daroca Bruño graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Seville in 1982. He obtained distinction in his final project and the Royal Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla award for the best academic record. From 1985 to 1991 he was an architect for the Department of Culture for research projects on Historical Heritage. From 1991 to 1993 he was an advisory architect to the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage in research projects. He has a doctorate in architecture from the University of Seville in 2012. Since 2018 he has been a Full Professor of Architectural Projects at the University of Seville. He has received various awards in architecture competitions, highlighting: 1 National Award for the banks of the Guadalquivir as it passes through Coria. International for the expansion and remodeling of the Prado Museum Madrid Ministry of Culture 1997. Finalist. national for the construction of 114 vpo for university students. 1st prize. He has published articles and his own work in monographic books and various national and international publications.
Jaime Daroca Guerrero graduated from the Seville School of Architecture and obtained a master's degree from Harvard University. Jaime has worked in various architecture studios, including e2a Architekten in Zurich, Switzerland and Daroca Arquitectos in Seville. He has taught at institutions such as Columbia University in New York and Harvard. He is currently an associate professor of Projects at ETSAM, and at the Academy of Arts University, San Francisco, USA. His professional work has been exhibited in international institutions such as MoMA in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennales, Spain, and Chile, and the Lisbon Triennial; as well as in monographic exhibitions in Spain and Romania. He has also been included in prestigious publications such as Architecture magazine (COAM), or Cuadernos COAS.
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