LOÉ EMOCIONAL. HOUSE IN THE NATURE
Basic information
Project Title
LOÉ EMOCIONAL. HOUSE IN THE NATURE
Category
Reconnecting with nature
Project Description
Four scattered pavilions, linked to nature, protected by the trees of the property, overlooking the deep landscape of La Vega de Granada. A brick wall is used to connect them, and they appear with fascination, linked to their exclusive landscape. Memories are erased and reborn, raising an emotional influence in the space.
Geographical Scope
Local
Project Region
La Vega de Granada., Spain
Urban or rural issues
It addresses urban-rural linkages
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
EU Programme or fund
No
Description of the project
Summary
Four scattered pavilions, linked to nature, protected by the trees of the property, overlooking the deep landscape of La Vega de Granada. A brick wall is used to connect them, and they appear with fascination, linked to their exclusive landscape. Memories are erased and reborn, raising an emotional influence in the space. "Nature becomes landscape when man frames it" Le Corbusier.
Architecture with simple lines that respects nature, with a marked horizontality and borrowing from the landscape. Configured by four scattered pavilions that seek a relationship with nature. It is enveloped and protected by the existing trees on the estate "disparate natural landscapes", it looks towards the depths of the Vega, and engages with the landscape. It is located on a plot of 1000m2, in Granada. The visual limit is set by the white peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Vega: a large, horizontal, ploughed landscape, fragmented by poplar groves and isolated buildings. The landscape changes over time, with the seasons, the variations in climate and the difference in crops. The dividing wall widens on the inside to house the gallery that leads to the pavilions. The pavilions appear in the dwelling by fascination, associated with disparate landscapes. The gallery is the threshold, the place where memories are erased and allow access to new ones. Experiences and perceptions that establish an emotional influence on the architectural space. Four buildings; of wood (bedrooms), time has acted and its colour is that of the trees, of glass (living room), open is the porch of the garden, a large walnut tree shelters it, reflective, immersed in a poplar grove, it perceives its magnitude enlarged (kitchen), sheltered (office), it allows work at home, on line, requested by the pandemic. The dividing wall inside is a gallery in semi-darkness. The entrails of a brick wall, which is inhabited to connect, creating a threshold to surprise with the heteroclite landscape of each pavilion.
Architecture with simple lines that respects nature, with a marked horizontality and borrowing from the landscape. Configured by four scattered pavilions that seek a relationship with nature. It is enveloped and protected by the existing trees on the estate "disparate natural landscapes", it looks towards the depths of the Vega, and engages with the landscape. It is located on a plot of 1000m2, in Granada. The visual limit is set by the white peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Vega: a large, horizontal, ploughed landscape, fragmented by poplar groves and isolated buildings. The landscape changes over time, with the seasons, the variations in climate and the difference in crops. The dividing wall widens on the inside to house the gallery that leads to the pavilions. The pavilions appear in the dwelling by fascination, associated with disparate landscapes. The gallery is the threshold, the place where memories are erased and allow access to new ones. Experiences and perceptions that establish an emotional influence on the architectural space. Four buildings; of wood (bedrooms), time has acted and its colour is that of the trees, of glass (living room), open is the porch of the garden, a large walnut tree shelters it, reflective, immersed in a poplar grove, it perceives its magnitude enlarged (kitchen), sheltered (office), it allows work at home, on line, requested by the pandemic. The dividing wall inside is a gallery in semi-darkness. The entrails of a brick wall, which is inhabited to connect, creating a threshold to surprise with the heteroclite landscape of each pavilion.
Key objectives for sustainability
The house embraces the existing trees, which, because of their age, are sculptures in the landscape. The layout folds into them, protects the buildings, makes them sustainable by using nature as a base technology. Courtyards are founded in each pavilion, the exterior is medicine for the users.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
The origin of the house was the transformation of an old shed. The functional needs forced successive extensions and the resource exhibited gravitated towards leaving the wooden building free-standing, due to its uniqueness. New buildings were proposed, not in competition with the original one, creating changing passages, folded into nature, connected by the thickened dividing wall. Each pavilion erects different architectures.
Key objectives for inclusion
The project involves the renovation of a house in the countryside consisting of three pavilions and the creation of a new pavilion as a "connected office". The main objective is to convert it into a dwelling that meets the housing needs that the recent pandemic has shown to be lacking, to adapt it to its current living situation, to improve energy efficiency... and to enrich the quality of life of the owners.
Results in relation to category
A work that reconnects with nature, grafts itself onto it, giving it priority, from the construction of landscapes. Loé emotional.
How Citizens benefit
It is a single-family house. It has been designed according to the needs of the users, enriching the quality of life of the owners.
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Innovative character
Nature is architecture, architecture is nature.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
Architecture, nature, botany, geology and biology take precedence over technology.
Methodology used
The emotional factor included in the habitat, the construction of isolated pavilions to resolve the extension of a dwelling, thus constituting new experiences incorporated into changing landscapes.
How stakeholders are engaged
The participation is exclusive between the family and the architect. The architect has brought the emotional variable to the act of inhabiting.
Global challenges
Insist that nature is the best option towards sustainable architecture.
Learning transferred to other parties
Value the emotional component in architecture and the fact that sustainability is achieved with nature.
Keywords
Emotional
Pavilions
Landscape
Nature
Time
