White without edges. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura
08/11/2018.
[Algemesí - Valencia] Spain
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
metalocus, ÁNGEL TORNE
Detached house located in the area of Les Marines in the city of Denia - La Marina Alta - Alicante.
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura. Photograph by Mariela Apollonio
Ground floor plan. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
First floor plan. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
Elevation. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
Elevation. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
Section. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
Detail section. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
Detail section. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
Detail section. Carmen House, by Carles Faus Arquitectura.
The project, designed by Carles Faus Arquitectura, is a house in Alicante that makes the aridity of the environment present, formalizing volumetrically with Ibizan reminiscences.
The project uses white as the main subject. White as a generator and driver of light.
The project uses white as the main subject. White as a generator and driver of light.
Description of project by Carles Faus Arquitectura
The design of the housing is born focusing on the style of the Ibizan country house, simple clear lines, controlled light and the white colour as starting stroke.
The house is dampened by the light of the city of Dénia, located in an environment in which the accent has to be placed only inside, having to divert attention from what surrounds it.
When projecting, a rectilinear formality has been followed, without too many deviations from the plans that make up the main axes of the house.
A design, where the location of spaces is given, mainly, by the path of light throughout the day. Upon entering, the house receives us with a large opening overlooking to the pool, in the foreground, and towards the Dénia castle on a more diffuse plane.
This large opening, with the ability to blur, once opened, the interior-exterior relationship, is framed by a porch of the same dimensions, which mitigates the entry of the Sun in the hottest months of the year, favouring on this way the staying in the same.
The access to the interior of the house has been generated through a side access, located on the north facade. This access is accompanied by a large opening, which frames us the views from the kitchen and dining area, increasing the relationship between both spaces, housing a small green line of the outside garden inside the main room.
The entrance opens the space to the main nucleus, a double height space that allows us to break with the exterior continuity. The day zone is delimited by the space with the largest volume and the large opening to which the porch of the main façade precedes. From this space the rest of the pieces of the house are fed, locating, on a very discreet plane, the nucleus of vertical communication.
White as the main subject. This has been the premise that we have followed from beginning to end. White as a generator and driver of light. Black shadows faded by its white background. A white lime, in its exterior vertical faces, that when reaching its base follows the same traceability and linearity when using the white microcement as continuity. The project base could be translated as a large white canvas that has been provided with different white pigments to make up all the spaces.
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Architects
Carles Faus Borràs
Architects Collaborators
Anaís Penáguila, María Aloy
Venue
Calle Albalat 119, Algemesí. Valencia. Spain
Dates
2018
Area
Built area.- 189.65 m²
Carles Faus Arquitectura
Carles Faus Borràs. Arquitecto por la Universidad Europea, 2014. Funda su estudio en 2015 en Algemesí – Valencia, formado por un grupo de profesionales de sectores muy diversos (paisajismo, acústica, cálculo estructural, instalaciones, arte, arquitectura…)
