
The family with two children was looking for a private house adapted to their creative and homely way of life, including spaces to play music, draw, dance, cook together… At the same time they were looking for a very energy efficient building, with almost zero consumption, comfortable and functional, where everything can be easily stored and organized.
To create a special and personal house, the architects proposed a set of prismatic volumes stacked on top of each other. Different and irregular elements, but together they make up the home.
They seem like containers presiding over the hillside open to the landscape and the horizon from one side and to the back of the plot, the garden, from the other side. A formal game that simultaneously organizes the program of the house, since each drawer contains a specific use: one piece houses the kitchen, another the bedrooms, the upper piece the library and study area and the open space between all of them is for the living room and seating area.
The house is located at the correct point on the plot to optimize the views, get a comfortable access and good use of the garden, carefully studying the slope to obtain a basement to store the cars. Also, the architects studied the position of the plot trees to create outdoor nice environments so that life does not only happen inside the house.
Responding to the clients’ low energy consumption requirements, the architects equipped the home with two types of very efficient envelopes. The front and rear facades are resolved with “carriage green” metal pieces (color that comes from traditional local architecture windows and blinds), arranged in such a way that they create a natural self-ventilated chamber, without the need for any energy input, thus controlling the incidence of the strong Madrid sun on the most exposed facades.
On the contrary, the side facades and roofs are covered with exterior thermal insulation systems, in this case without the need to create a self-ventilated facade, because the trees on the plot themselves cast shade on these panels, thus being more protected.
These are finished in white, which deliberately contrasts with the “carriage green” color, enhancing the formal gesture that defines the house: boxes stacked on a hillside, balanced on top of each other, creating an altarpiece, a residential front full of personality that will become the symbol of a family determined in just not living conventionally in any house.