Location: Calpe, Alicante, Spain
Design Team: Fran Silvestre, María José Sáez
Structure: David Gallardo
Technical Architect: Vicente
Ramos, Esperanza Corrales, Javier Delgado
Interior Design: Alfaro
Hofmann
Area: 242 sqm
We like the virtue of architecturewhich makes possible constructing a house on air, walking on water…
An abrupt plot of land overlooking the sea, where what is best is to do
nothing. It invites to stay.
A piece that respects the land’s natural contour is set in it.
Above, a shadow, the house itself, looking calmly at the Mediterranean.
Under the sun, the swimming-pool brings us closer to the sea, it becomes a
quiet cove.
In the inflection point, the stairway proposes a evocative path, a garden in
the basement…
Dueto 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 plot’s topography was chosen, thus minimizing the earthwork.
Thismonolithic, stone-anchored structure generates a horizontal platform from the
accessing level, where the house itself is located. 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. The rest of materials, walls, pavements, the gravel on the roof…
all maintain the same colour, respecting the traditional architecture of the
area, emphasizing it and simultaneously underlining the unity of the house.
