Typological organization of the Sevillian houses, A11 House by Vázquez Consuegra
25/06/2019.
[Seville] Spain
metalocus, MARÍA REDONDO
metalocus, MARÍA REDONDO
Description of project by Vázquez Consuegra
The difficulty of intervening in a very uneven, narrow and elongated plot (2.20 m façade) located in the historic center of Seville adds the presence of a metal structure abandoned by the previous owner. Structure composed of floors and pillars that would have to be reused and incorporated into the project, and that responded to a program very different from the one requested for this occasion.
On the other hand, the space located at the end of the plot, theoretically intended as a garden, is surrounded by buildings that far exceed the height of the house, seriously compromising the privacy of this site.
The proposal accepts the complexity of the problems posed, assumes the limitations and constraints imposed by the situation, and extracts its strength from them.
The house assumes the typological organization that characterizes the Sevillian house, that is, the sequence: hallway-patio-stay-garden, looking for transparencies and deep perspectives, but where the hall becomes here, thanks to its condition of filter space with double enclosure (perforated gate and glass door) in an effective and solvent thermal regulator of the house.
The arrangement of the staircase attached to one of the party walls will allow to draw without interruption a long perspective that reaches the garden from the street, where a perimeter system of metallic meshes, arranged in two layers and of great height, will support the climbers, that will transform this patio of neighbors in an authentic orchard, in a small, but intense, hidden garden.
Two large overhangs lead the house into the garden, approaching the poplars planted in front of the vines: one on the first floor, terrace and porch of the summer dining room and another longer and slender on the second floor, houses the staircase that gives access to the roof.
Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra (b. Sevilla, Spain 1945). Gold Medal of Spanish Architecture 2016, Spanish Architecture Prize 2005, Andalusia Architecture Prize 2007, Arpafil Prize (Guadalajara, Mexico) 2006, Grand Prize of the International Biennial of Buenos Aires 2011 and Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects, AIA 2014. His works have received numerous awards, among which are the ArchDaily Building of the 2018 Year Award, The 2015 Plan Award, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum 2015 and 2018 International Architecture Awards, 2014 Iberoamerican Biennial Prize, Ugo Architecture European Prize Rivolta 2008, 2006 ASCER Award, CEOE Foundation Award 2001 and Construmat Prize 1989.
He has participated in multiple exhibitions highlighting the Biennale di Venecia 1980 and 2004, the Triennale di Milano 1988, Center Georges Pompidou Paris 1990, The Art Institute of Chicago 1992, The Museum of Modern Art New York 2006, RIBA London 2007, DOMUSae Madrid 2010, BIAU Rosario, Argentina 2014 and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design 2016 and 2018.
Among its main achievements are the Caixaforum Sevilla Cultural Center (2017), the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Europèennes in Luxembourg (2017), the Seville Conference Center (2012), the social housing buildings in Madrid (2012), Rota ( 1998) and Seville (1987), the San Telmo Palace in Seville, the Andalusian Government Presidency (2010), the National Museum of Underwater Archeology in Cartagena (2008), the Tomares City Council in Seville (2004), the Ordination of the Maritime Edge of Vigo (2004), the Museum of the Enlightenment in Valencia (2001), the Museum of the Sea in Genoa (2001) and the Navigation Pavilion Expo'92 Seville (1991).
He has been Project Professor at the University of Seville, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Lausanne, Pamplona, Syracuse New York, Bologna, Venice, Mendrisio and Visiting Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of Seville where he directs the Catedra Blanca project workshop.