Within a plot of approximately 5000m2, exists a stone enclosure of around 12x4m. An
enclosure made up of irregular thick stone walls. One of the façades
is made of local sandstone;
therefore, more fragile and thin, it is concentrated
on all of the openings and
irregularities.
The
proposal realizes two principal operations:
The first
one is to extend the enclosure until it has approximately square proportions. The
second one is to define a covered area within this enclosure. So the house is
able to embrace some parts of exterior space. So the outer space becomes
domesticated, bounded, delimited.
So the
interior and exterior begin to blend together, creating in-between spaces. So
the interior and exterior are the two sides of the same coin. So the different
boundaries that surround the house are considered as shells that protect the
inhabitant. This house is understood from the interior, from the inhabitant
that lives there, and not from the observer looking passively at the object. So
the house becomes a graft of the Mediterranean tradition.