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Row House Renovation
Row House Renovation
Arbúcies, Spain
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Row House Renovation
Arbúcies, Spain
Project Featured on Sep 03, 2013
Clients wished to turn the upper floors of this building (just above the family business), till that moment disused, into their private home, with a couple of bedrooms, a studio, and a kitchen/dining room supposed to become the heart of the new house.
It is a long and narrow plot at the town centre, with a 4-metre-width between party walls, in which the existing building already took up the whole surface. The family business, a butcher's shop, must be crossed to get the house, although the first proposal tried to resolve the access from one of the neighbours' buildings. The gabled roof was the only element linking the main volume of the former dwelling and the spaces located on the rear façade, letting between them and inner courtyard, covered but not closed. This way, the original building could be seen from outside as a very compact volume despite having a very fragmented structure.
The project has attempted to take advantage of the great possibilities of the longitudinal section, articulating massifs and voids, staying spaces and circulations and provoking new sightlines, non-existent formerly.
Physically, the renovation has kept the structural wooden frame, in a good condition, expecting the rear slope of the roof, unprotected out in the open, which has been entirely replaced and modified in its geometry in order to adapt it to the functional program and the new priorities: introducing the maximum light into the inner spaces of the house. The original slab system with wooden beams has been kept, but some new elements have been introduced to be distinguished from those in existence: metallic structure painted in black for the staircase and the footbridge, a solution that, besides becoming visibly different, has helped to tighten wooden slabs themselves and to the peripheral walls. For the new part of the roof, the option has been also making different from the old: pine tree beams, cut in rectangular section, and prefab slab pieces including thermic insulation and drywall finish downwards ready to be painted, to model the new longitudinal section. An important effort has been done to take profit of the existing materials, such as the roman roof tiles, the ancient pieces of ceramic flooring (now arranged as a carpet on the dining-room), or even the ceramic supporting pieces of the removed roof slab now used as the terrace paving.
By retiring the partitions of the first floor and the new roof section, the house has now a main central element, a continuous space that gathers all daytime functions: living-room, kitchen and dining-room, which, situated at the ancient courtyard, grows vertical in a three-storey height to the skylight. At the second floor there are two bedrooms, facing outdoors on each façade, with the main bedroom on the rear side, pushing its volume over the dining-room, and to which it is necessary to access by crossing a footbridge. From this footbridge, or even from the bedroom, there are oblique sightlines both of the first floor and the lower side of the roof with its new wooden beams. At the third floor there is an open studio, a third bathroom and the exit to the terrace (defined as the opposite of the courtyard volume) oriented to sunlight and which permits sightseeing further than the nearest buildings. There has been also built up an attic to put up the butcher’s installations, until now located at the first floor.
It is a long and narrow plot at the town centre, with a 4-metre-width between party walls, in which the existing building already took up the whole surface. The family business, a butcher's shop, must be crossed to get the house, although the first proposal tried to resolve the access from one of the neighbours' buildings. The gabled roof was the only element linking the main volume of the former dwelling and the spaces located on the rear façade, letting between them and inner courtyard, covered but not closed. This way, the original building could be seen from outside as a very compact volume despite having a very fragmented structure.
The project has attempted to take advantage of the great possibilities of the longitudinal section, articulating massifs and voids, staying spaces and circulations and provoking new sightlines, non-existent formerly.
Physically, the renovation has kept the structural wooden frame, in a good condition, expecting the rear slope of the roof, unprotected out in the open, which has been entirely replaced and modified in its geometry in order to adapt it to the functional program and the new priorities: introducing the maximum light into the inner spaces of the house. The original slab system with wooden beams has been kept, but some new elements have been introduced to be distinguished from those in existence: metallic structure painted in black for the staircase and the footbridge, a solution that, besides becoming visibly different, has helped to tighten wooden slabs themselves and to the peripheral walls. For the new part of the roof, the option has been also making different from the old: pine tree beams, cut in rectangular section, and prefab slab pieces including thermic insulation and drywall finish downwards ready to be painted, to model the new longitudinal section. An important effort has been done to take profit of the existing materials, such as the roman roof tiles, the ancient pieces of ceramic flooring (now arranged as a carpet on the dining-room), or even the ceramic supporting pieces of the removed roof slab now used as the terrace paving.
By retiring the partitions of the first floor and the new roof section, the house has now a main central element, a continuous space that gathers all daytime functions: living-room, kitchen and dining-room, which, situated at the ancient courtyard, grows vertical in a three-storey height to the skylight. At the second floor there are two bedrooms, facing outdoors on each façade, with the main bedroom on the rear side, pushing its volume over the dining-room, and to which it is necessary to access by crossing a footbridge. From this footbridge, or even from the bedroom, there are oblique sightlines both of the first floor and the lower side of the roof with its new wooden beams. At the third floor there is an open studio, a third bathroom and the exit to the terrace (defined as the opposite of the courtyard volume) oriented to sunlight and which permits sightseeing further than the nearest buildings. There has been also built up an attic to put up the butcher’s installations, until now located at the first floor.
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