A single-family home that turns life inward, sheltered by a ceramic screen.
Casa N39 is a single-family home designed as a volume that turns life towards the inside. From the street a ceramic celosia wall filters light, views and heat, sheltering the inside without losing permeability. What at first seems to be a hermetic facade reveals itself, upon entering, as an architecture that unfolds inward.
The program is organized around a sequence of courtyards that modulate natural light, cross ventilation and fluidity. The first, just behind the celosia, is a green threshold and transition zone between public and private spaces. The second, inside, connects the rooms and their lighting and ventilation. The third, at the back of the site, accompanies the social areas and extends the domestic experience to the garden.
The social area is on the ground floor; the entrance is on one side of the first courtyard, next to the garage, to the living room, dining room and kitchen. On the first floor there is a study delimited by bookcase walls that separate a secondary bedroom. On the second floor is the master bedroom with a dressing room and en-suite bathroom. The roof is made up of two sloping slabs in a sawtooth roof.
The house is made up of a sequence of rooms enclosed by earth finished walls, handmade brick floors and wooden carpentry. These elements contrast with lighter ones (metal railings, slidable panels) that allow the spaces to be opened or closed according to the weather or time of day. The whole is centered around the courtyards, the project’s focal points.