Evoking the structure of the traditional Greek and Roman villas of Ampurias, the Tres Patis Home in Albons (Girona) reinterprets the important parts of these classical constructions on a up to date observe. The residential mission, designed by Twobo arquitectura in collaboration with DA.CH. Taller de arquitectura y paisajismo, expresses its identification by means of an enclosing wall, courtyards, and the rooms laid out round them.
The rough-finished plastered wall surrounds and isolates the plot from sturdy north winds whereas safeguarding the privateness of the residents with out depriving them of views of the panorama. This architectural gesture ends in a protected house, the place structure and nature have interaction in a balanced dialogue. The rooms are grouped in three impartial pavilions standing across the courtyard and constructed with a cautious mixture of ceramic lattices, glass, wooden, and metal.
The center of the mission is the trio of concrete patios that construction and outline the house, every with a special perform and character: considered one of them, thought up as a small village sq., harbors a tree which has the impact of an invite to relaxation; the opposite one recollects the Roman impluvium with a swimming pool surrounded by vegetation; the third is an fragrant orchard, filled with Mediterranean vegetation that transport one to previous monastic gardens.
Circulation throughout the advanced is outlined by means of a cloth transition of the pavement: from the stone close to the home to its progressive fusion with native vegetation within the areas farthest from the backyard. This sequence emphasizes the mixing of structure and territory, giving rise to a gradation of areas that dilutes the bounds between constructed and pure.
Taking Richard Neutra, a key determine of the Fashionable Motion in California and architect of Case Examine Home #20, as a reference, the volumes function repetitive metallic buildings and enormous home windows protected by pure shades or triangular lattices, mitigating the extreme summer time solar.
The home strives to blur the boundaries between indoors and open air by means of steady paths, concrete walkways, giant home windows and showers that open onto courtyards. A country plaster wall embraces the plot of land, defending the home from the tramuntana wind and framing fragments of the agricultural panorama for everybody who lives inside.
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