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The proposal wants to occupy all the buildable part of the parcel by means of a ground floor house, entailing a triangle shaped plan with each side parallel to its correspondent plot limit. This triangular geometry minimizes the distribution spaces (having only a central one), reduces the cost and allows a constant and homogeneous relation between both the inside and the outside. Because of the ground level difference between site and street (the highest one), the triangular roof, almost an
icon, becomes the fourth façade of the house.While designing and planning the project, the budget was cut by 65%. This fact strongly conditioned all the construction
decisions: systems, materials, etc. By removing all the superfluous and
unnecessary elements, the house was given both an inside and an outside which
are extremely austere, powerful and very expressive.