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ALT | House on the Cliff by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

ALT | House on the Cliff byย Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Location:ย Calp, Spain
Year: 2012
Photo courtesy:ย Diego Opazo
Description:

We like the virtue of architecture which makes possible constructing a house on air, walking on waterโ€ฆย An abrupt plot of land overlooking the sea, where what is best is to do nothing. It invites to stay.ย A piece that respects the landโ€™s natural contour is set in it.ย Above, a shadow, the house itself, looking calmly at the Mediterranean.ย Under the sun, the swimming-pool brings us closer to the sea, it becomes a quiet cove.ย In the inflection point, the stairway proposes a evocative path, a garden in the basementโ€ฆ

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Due to the steepness of the plot and the desire to contain the house in just one level, a three-dimensional structure of reinforced concrete slabs and screens adapting to the plotโ€™s topography was chosen, thus minimizing the earthwork.

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This monolithic, stone-anchored structure generates a horizontal platform from the accessing level, where the house itself is located.ย The swimming-pool is placed on a lower level, on an already flat area of the site. The concrete structure is insulated from the outside and then covered by a flexible and smooth white lime stucco.ย The rest of materials, walls, pavements, the gravel on the roofโ€ฆ all maintain the same colour, respecting the traditional architecture of the area, emphasizing it and simultaneously underlining the unity of the house.

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