Garoza House
CLIENT: Rafael Celda
ARCHITECTS: Juan Herreros (Herreros Arquitectos)
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Verónica Meléndez
PROJECT TEAM: Paula Vega, Alejandro Valdivieso, Margarita Martínez
SURFACE: 75m2
PHOTOGRAPHS: Javier Callejas, Paula Arroyo (ojovivofoto)
Awards
-Construmat Award 2011.
-Architectural Review House Awards 2012. Shortlisted.
-XI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning 2011. Shortlisted.
-Mies van der Rohe Award 2011. Shortlisted.
-FAD Awards 2011. Shortlisted.
The Garoza house is a product of urban culture. It is not conceived as a refuge to escape the city but as a fragment of the daily home moved to the countryside. That’s why it is not necessary to break it, to build a basement, to plant a garden, to alter nature with decorative species, or to pervert the composition of the soil and its runoff. In fact, the structure hardly touches the surface except for a few metallic feet that do not require foundations to rest on the original granite. This conceptual lightness is carried to its ultimate consequences by conceiving this minimal construction as a prototype of energy-independent industrialised housing. All construction systems are dry. Complete units are manufactured in the workshop with all the interior finishes of the maximum size that conventional transport allows. Only the last layer of the facade and the roof are attached in situ to ensure continuity, overlap and waterproofing of the joints. Interior partitions, storage and fixed furniture are incorporated into the vertical walls that house installations of high technical quality that permit remote control. The resulting ensemble offers quality, control over the execution time, maintenance plans and growth options far superior to traditional construction. A large terrace extends and orientates the house towards the landscape, giving it value through the views, the lightness of the installation and the deliberate industrial appearance of the object that seeks an integration more contrasted than mimetic, as a gesture of a contemporary appreciation of nature.
Garoza House
CLIENT: Rafael Celda
ARCHITECTS: Juan Herreros (Herreros Arquitectos)
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Verónica Meléndez
PROJECT TEAM: Paula Vega, Alejandro Valdivieso, Margarita Martínez
SURFACE: 75m2
PHOTOGRAPHS: Javier Callejas, Paula Arroyo (ojovivofoto)
Awards
-Construmat Award 2011.
-Architectural Review House Awards 2012. Shortlisted.
-XI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning 2011. Shortlisted.
-Mies van der Rohe Award 2011. Shortlisted.
-FAD Awards 2011. Shortlisted.
The Garoza house is a product of urban culture. It is not conceived as a refuge to escape the city but as a fragment of the daily home moved to the countryside. That’s why it is not necessary to break it, to build a basement, to plant a garden, to alter nature with decorative species, or to pervert the composition of the soil and its runoff. In fact, the structure hardly touches the surface except for a few metallic feet that do not require foundations to rest on the original granite. This conceptual lightness is carried to its ultimate consequences by conceiving this minimal construction as a prototype of energy-independent industrialised housing. All construction systems are dry. Complete units are manufactured in the workshop with all the interior finishes of the maximum size that conventional transport allows. Only the last layer of the facade and the roof are attached in situ to ensure continuity, overlap and waterproofing of the joints. Interior partitions, storage and fixed furniture are incorporated into the vertical walls that house installations of high technical quality that permit remote control. The resulting ensemble offers quality, control over the execution time, maintenance plans and growth options far superior to traditional construction. A large terrace extends and orientates the house towards the landscape, giving it value through the views, the lightness of the installation and the deliberate industrial appearance of the object that seeks an integration more contrasted than mimetic, as a gesture of a contemporary appreciation of nature.