Once
again, another surprising commission. The clients’ dream: To live
in a house in the middle of an orange grove. But what they really
have is a plot of land between party walls in the village.
It
is a drastic decision. To raise the house up and reproduce an orange
grove at ground level, from which living spaces and courtyards will
levitate, thus evoking a subtle effect of lights and shades.
Resting
on the two dividing walls acting as supporting walls, we define a
series of functional boxes proportionally separated in plan as well
as in section, creating a sequence of floating cubes on the orchard.
By
assigning specific functions to each cube, slight level changes give
shape to the programme, improving the feel of walking, going round,
going up and down from box to box, increasing the experience of
living the spaces.
By
inserting courtyards from which orange trees can be seen, the house
creates its own world: a true oasis of crossed sights, sunshine,
shadow and the wonderful smell of orange blossom. A house that plays
on the senses, phenomenological. As
a final touch, a triple height space, empty, dull, with a series of
panels as façade that are wall and furniture at the same time,
plastic, functional, a special place to be reinvented day by day by
its inhabitants.
The
materialization
seeks to transform the relationship with the exterior through the
development of a new type of wall, the MCP wall. It is an adaptable
wall made from a series of glass layers, screens and deployé
thin sheet that define changeable white boxes in transparency and
opacity, according to the use of natural or digital criteria by the
inhabitant.