Casa Alba was designed as a comfortable and practical beach house, with integrated social environments to keep the family together during leisure time.
The flat terrain favored the location of the house and the full use of the spaces.
On the ground floor, the social area was distributed linearly, leaving the living room more intimate, and the gourmet area fully integrated with the pool patio, uniting indoor and outdoor areas into a large living space and the patio becomes an extension of the house when the doors open. It also houses service areas and two suites for the elderly.
The house was designed so that several uses could be made at the same time in different environments, but still allowed family and friends to stay together. Someone prepares lunch, while children play in the pool and the elderly watch television. Yet they are all in the same space; a real beach house.
Light colors and the use of natural materials bring the necessary warmth, such as miracema stone in its raw form and ecological woody slats. The appreciation of vegetation and wide eaves with flower boxes highlight the house's friendly relationship with the patio and natural lighting.
Designed to make good use of solar incidence, it has openings strategically arranged to capture natural lighting throughout the year, and heat in winter. In summer the sun is blocked by the eaves.
The house has technologies such as solar panels, heated floors, a hot water boiler, an electric car socket, and air conditioners. Everything is connected to the automation system, which also controls the windows, curtains, lighting and sound.
Its name comes from the Latin “albus” meaning “the first light of the day” as its front faces the sea, witnessing the sunrise - a special moment in which everything comes to life.