At first look, Twobo Arquitectura’s new courtyard home in Girona, Spain, seems to be a sprawling residential advanced criss-crossed by colonnades, walkways, awnings and swimming pools. The truth is, the association of the three key constructions within the new 300 sq m home is fastidiously choreographed round three sq. patios, the tres patis of its identify.
The doorway to Casa Tres Patis, a home surrounded by a excessive wall
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The architects had been impressed by classical typologies, significantly the ruins of the traditional Roman villas within the close by Catalonian coastal metropolis of Empúries, initially based by the Greeks in round 575 BCE. The brand new home consists of three constructions, all of which flip inwards. The architects describe this as a ‘timeless Mediterranean typology of a home with an enclosing wall, a central sky-lit patio, and rooms organized round this central characteristic’.
Trying north throughout the pool to the visitor and foremost pavilions
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Trying west previous the pool to the outside kitchen and eating space
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A visitor pavilion adjoins the carport instantly reverse the doorway on the south of the plot. This sits alongside a kitchen backyard, the smallest of the three patios. A coated walkway threads via the location, previous an al fresco eating space and the massive sq. swimming pool, encompass on all 4 sides by the colonnades.
The primary bed room at Casa Tres Patis
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Two sides of the pool are flanked by the pavilions containing the principal lodging. To the west is a bed room wing, with two en-suites and a utility space, while the biggest construction on the northern tip of the location incorporates the lounge, eating space and kitchen, together with the first bed room suite.
The primary bed room sits on the north-western nook of the location
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Your entire plot is enclosed by tall roughly plastered partitions, making a compound that feels set aside and separate from the surface world, in addition to giving the home safety from northern winds. The sense of a built-in, self-contained advanced is heightened by the framing machine of the colonnades and planting, which incorporates grasses and lemon timber in addition to a mature olive.
Your entire plot is surrounded by tough completed partitions
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The Barcelona-based architects cite the affect of Le Corbusier and Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz within the association of framed views, home windows and apertures. There’s additionally affect from the structure of the grand Roman villa, significantly in the best way the pool mirrors the shallow pond in massive Roman houses – the impluvium – a pure approach of amassing rainwater and cooling the inside. Even the usage of concrete in and out attracts comparisons with the monumentality and sturdiness of historical ruins.
A mezzanine degree sits above the seating space in the principle pavilion
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The kitchen, displaying the roughly completed exterior partitions alongside Iroko wooden cabinetry
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The sense of solidity is paired with the diaphanous association of terracotta tiles and glass partitions, creating screens that permit mild in but additionally protect the privateness of the courtyard-facing bedrooms. Iroko wooden panels at excessive degree are paired with ceramic tiles and polished concrete flooring, creating an earthy, heat home sphere with the occasional splash of color, as within the bogs and the 2 blue tiled chimney options, one inside the principle dwelling area adjoining the steps to a mezzanine degree, and the opposite adjoining a yellow tiled outside kitchen apart from the pool.
The plot is threaded with coated walkways in concrete, juxtaposed with the tiled display partitions of the pavilions
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Twobo Arquitectura was arrange in 2007 by María Pancorbo, Alberto Twose, and Pablo Twose in Barcelona. Working throughout housing developments and one-off personal dwellings, the studio has gained a number of awards for its thought of strategy.
A view throughout the plot from the mezzanine degree
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