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LA CASA HUNDIDA
LA CASA HUNDIDA
Al Hoceima, Morocco
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LA CASA HUNDIDA
Al Hoceima, Morocco
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Type
STATUS
Under Construction
YEAR
2024
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
A villa that is part of a very complex context, due to its rugged terrain that lies between the mountains of the Moroccan Rif and its low plateau which is the Mediterranean sea. Sitting on a cliff and surrounded by a picturesque landscape, the complexity lies in the almost certain desire for panoramic opening on the site and the
Moroccan custom of introversion and protection of the horma.
This complexity gives rise to a profound reflection on the appropriation of space as well as a timeless place of life that is surgically inscribed on the stretched plateau of the plot. Like its context, architecture is scrupulous. Whether by the way to fit into the field or the expression of its form both shy and intimidating. The architectural response is manifested as a sharp blade, a deep incision like a quarry or enclave to inhabit.
Through the guidelines of the place, the bordering spaces of the villa are instinctively drawn. It is thought like an iceberg, whose buried part represents the heart of the house that is anchored in the ground on two levels and the apparent part forms a seat that allows the master bedroom to crown it. By this gesture, a duality in the
form of ascension and decadence is created.
An ascent to partially touch the sky and allows the human scale to be present and ironically dominant. By the raised travertine slab that houses the master bedroom but which is also the subject of an
infinite viewpoint on the Mediterranean.
Decadence results from the concept of the gap, and thus becomes a means of spatial transition through the stairs that lead to the heart of the villa. The house is thus the subject of a chiaroscuro architectural walk where patios come to illuminate the corridors and living spaces. This game of full and empty, timid transparency and both
assertive and imposing on the side of the sea. The corridor is designed to be suspended on the void of the stairs, a form of flexibility sought to break the rigidity of a buried architecture.
This indoor course which is also a partial descent forming a game of platforms that lead to the lower level where the infinity pool resides.
The villa is a journey of emotions, frames that vary on the different times of the day so follows the movement of the sun.
The sun at its zenith, the walls of the patios are bright and are subject to reflective screens allowing living spaces to light up. At sunset, the corridors of the floors lead to the same place: the living room where the subdued hues of the sky reflect on the ground and the infinity pool forming an infinite slab.
La Casa Hundida villa is not only an architectural response faithful to its context, but it is a scenario of life, a scenography, the art of inhabiting its space, to understand its context and its essence, to submit to the environment while asserting itself subtly. Open up and know how to protect yourself, a game full of emptiness, light and shade, mineral and vegetal, flexibility and rigidity, lightness and heaviness... It is simply an architecture of antithesis.
Moroccan custom of introversion and protection of the horma.
This complexity gives rise to a profound reflection on the appropriation of space as well as a timeless place of life that is surgically inscribed on the stretched plateau of the plot. Like its context, architecture is scrupulous. Whether by the way to fit into the field or the expression of its form both shy and intimidating. The architectural response is manifested as a sharp blade, a deep incision like a quarry or enclave to inhabit.
Through the guidelines of the place, the bordering spaces of the villa are instinctively drawn. It is thought like an iceberg, whose buried part represents the heart of the house that is anchored in the ground on two levels and the apparent part forms a seat that allows the master bedroom to crown it. By this gesture, a duality in the
form of ascension and decadence is created.
An ascent to partially touch the sky and allows the human scale to be present and ironically dominant. By the raised travertine slab that houses the master bedroom but which is also the subject of an
infinite viewpoint on the Mediterranean.
Decadence results from the concept of the gap, and thus becomes a means of spatial transition through the stairs that lead to the heart of the villa. The house is thus the subject of a chiaroscuro architectural walk where patios come to illuminate the corridors and living spaces. This game of full and empty, timid transparency and both
assertive and imposing on the side of the sea. The corridor is designed to be suspended on the void of the stairs, a form of flexibility sought to break the rigidity of a buried architecture.
This indoor course which is also a partial descent forming a game of platforms that lead to the lower level where the infinity pool resides.
The villa is a journey of emotions, frames that vary on the different times of the day so follows the movement of the sun.
The sun at its zenith, the walls of the patios are bright and are subject to reflective screens allowing living spaces to light up. At sunset, the corridors of the floors lead to the same place: the living room where the subdued hues of the sky reflect on the ground and the infinity pool forming an infinite slab.
La Casa Hundida villa is not only an architectural response faithful to its context, but it is a scenario of life, a scenography, the art of inhabiting its space, to understand its context and its essence, to submit to the environment while asserting itself subtly. Open up and know how to protect yourself, a game full of emptiness, light and shade, mineral and vegetal, flexibility and rigidity, lightness and heaviness... It is simply an architecture of antithesis.
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