PETRA

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PETRA

Firm

Gallardo Llopis Arquitectos

Type

Residential › Private House

Petra, a sculptured stone.

Petra comes from the Greek and means stone, is not a city built of stone, but
literally, carved and sculpted in stone. The origin of the word Petrer comes
from Petrea village, which means
village or rather stony, with lots of stone.
Appropriating this idea the proposal arises from a stone, rock, mass, ... Petrea.
The building, like a quarry operation, generates as a base of operations for
stone removal from enhancing the geometries and lines of a pure and sober body.Reflections, lights and shadows

The project is evident not only physically, but through the reflections that
make it clear through the sheets of water, producing a mirror effect housing
multiplying the visuals.
A game of shadows from carved rock contrasting with the light of the large
panes of glass.
The skylight and the interior courtyard of mysticism that provide communication
with the bottom of the home like a passage to another layer of rock in
question.Patio, an erosion of the stone.
Petrer Castle serves local reference to the concept of building mass and rocky,
where there is also a series of cave dwellings under it. Following this concept
you choose to unite the rest of the program in the basement.
Erosion is performed to the rock, a patio as a gun, a hole under the rock to
enjoy this patio, which becomes a magical, quiet place where the reflections of
the water level living with trees that provide shadow over their heads and over
time.
This decision allows volumetric more harmonious proportions, a cost savings by
eliminating a plant and more broadly to be more appropriate proportions between
the spaces and the height of the building.