The “Casa 2xS” is a house placed on the urban limit of Mora, an olive-producing town in the centre of Spain.This
particular condition of the site, the border between the urban and the
nearby countryside landscape, defines the starting point for the
project.In the house surroundings we can find empty plots, new
dwellings from several Real State Developments, industrial buildings,
abandoned constructions… we are on a typical urban border configuration
where the town is on a growing up process.In this situation, following the client character and the way of
living of “La Mancha” area, where people understands their houses as a
private familiar sphere with all the action happening inside and no one
seeing it from the outside, the house closes itself from the exterior
and it is open to its interior.Low final house budget was a very
important worry for the client from the first moment, so we decide to go
for a simple building, with easy construction systems, listening and
following carefully the local construction tradition.The house is
defined then by a structural solid brick wall covered by white stucco,
on the plot perimeter, that breaks itself and continues towards the
interior, generating all the spaces requested on the brief.Following Mora vernacular domestic architecture, you can access to the
house from a hallway, a space between shadows and light, between closed
and open, that continues towards a triangular patio. All the house works
around this patio and this space (together with the structural wall
thickness and materials) are the building climate controllers. The patio
can be covered with a canopy; windows and doors can be opened and
closed depending on the sun conditions, on the same way that
architecture has work since hundreds of years on the area.Interior spaces are continuous and at the same time different.
Despite the small size of the construction we get a good dynamism and
functionality.Materials are simple and cheap, from nearby
suppliers, cutting CO2 emissions in transport, and related with “La
Mancha” ancient tradition and the semi-industrial contemporary urban
border were the building is.Project: Casa 2xSArea: 240 m2Design: OOIIO Architecture | http://www.ooiio.com/Team: Joaquín Millán Villamuelas, Luis Alberto EmbidConstruction Project Manager: Agripino Gómez de Zamora SerranoConstruction Safely Manager: Joaquín Millán VillamuelasEstructures: Raúl Velandrino PovedaMEP: Sergio Velandrino Poveda