Villarcayo, Spain

Site Size: 7,566 square feet

Project Size: 2,220 square feet

Program: A young family, on a limited budget, requested a contemporary design for their house in a suburban neighborhood in northern Spain. They asked for a single-story house to complement the scale of their garden and a large sitting room and terrace with direct access to the outdoors.

Solution: The rectangular poured-in-place concrete structure features maple cladding with floor-to-ceiling windows, allowing visitors to see through the house from north to south. Concrete walls on the west and east ends offer privacy from the dense development surrounding the dwelling.

Exterior materials continue indoors, where the floors and ceilings are concrete and walls and doorways are lined with wood. The architects emphasized (and allotted the most square footage) to the glass-enclosed dining and living areas in the middle; bedrooms, bathrooms, study, kitchen, and garage are on either side. A freestanding outdoor shower, made of concrete, extends the palette of simple materials to the garden.

People

Owner: Withheld

Completion Date: October 2012

Site Size: 7,566 square feet

Project Size: 2,220 square feet

Architect:
Pereda Pérez Aquitectos 
Travesía Monte Monjardín
8 bajo 31006 Pamplona Spain
T 948292308
F 948292309
Email: estudio@peredaperez.com
www.peredaperez.com

Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit:
Collaborators_Teresa Gridilla Saavedra
Rigger_ Rodrigo Fernández Bárcena

General contractor: Construcciones Trespaderne SL

Photographer(s):
Pedro Pegenaute
www.pedropegenaute.es
+34 660 68 34 47

 

Products

Structural system
concrete frame

Exterior cladding
Wood:
Grapia

Other cladding unique to this project:
Concrete

Roofing
Built-up roofing:
Gravel, isolation roofmate, epdm, concrete

Windows
Wood frame:
Grapia

Glazing
Glass:
Climalit planitherm 5+5 14 4+4

Doors
Wood doors:
Maple, grapia

Interior finishes
Cabinetwork and custom woodwork:
Maple, grapia

Paints and stains:
paint on plaster in bedrooms

Wall coverings:
Maple, grapia

Paneling:
Maple, grapia

Floor and wall tile:
Pocelanosa marmi china in kitchen and bathrooms.

Resilient flooring:
Concrete

Furnishings
Chairs:
Vitra Eames Plastic Side Chair DSW
Fritz hansen PK22

Tables:
Design by Pereda Pérez arquitectos
Fritz hansen PK61

Lighting
Interior ambient lighting:
fluorescent

Downlights:
Artemide rastaff

Task lighting:
Artemide tolomeo

Exterior:
LED

Conveyance
Accessibility provision:
Ramping

Other unique products that contribute to sustainability:
Geothermal system