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Prefab House in Cedeira
Cedeira, Spain
Built in three months and assembled in three days,
this vacation house located in the Galician municipality of Cedeira
is a good example of the many possibilities that modular construction, up to
now associated with catalogue houses, offers today.
The program demanded by the client, along with the
unique site of the house and modulation
and transportation needs of prefabricated construction, inspired the design of
this house built by the young Madrid
studio MYCC, formed by Carmina Casajuana, Beatriz G. Casares and Marcos
González.
The house is located on a steep slope, in a remote
location in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula,
an area dominated by the imposing presence of the ocean and the slender forest
of eucalyptus trees surrounding it. The terrain is surrounded by harvest
fields, family farms and pitched roof houses. This image, protected by the
area’s building codes, determined the geometry of the house that, simplified up
to the point of evoking the basic house, was conceived as an autonomous piece
that sits as a landscape observer and that speaks, with new terms, about the
traditional language of the place. The volume was wrapped with two materials
with the purpose of setting up a dialogue with the landscape. The roof and the
side facades were covered with Viroc®, a prefabricated mixture of cement and
wood shavings that, because of its gray color, recalls the wood of eucalyptus
trees. This fibercement has a great strength efficiency in spite of being light
and, therefore, is easy to maintain and move. The two main facades of the house
were clad with perforated Cor-ten trays following the schematized image of a
forest silhouette, recreating the image of the surrounding vegetation. This
material was chosen because it is part of the local tradition of fishing towns
like Cedeira, used for the construction of boat hulls, and the gradual and
controlled oxidation of which gives the material self-protecting qualities. Its
patina and changing color create a lively image that relates with the natural
environment. This interplay between the natural and the artificial also
benefits the interior spaces, where the light that crosses through these silhouettes
casts shadows of trees in the different rooms.
Being a vacation house, the interior spaces are
free-flowing and open up to the unique landscape, turning it into the
protagonist. The six modules that make up the house, of approximately 6 meters in length and 3 in width (the maximum
reasonable width to enable their transportation by trailer) organize the
program as follows: the first one contains the bedroom, which can be divided
into two thanks to a blind concealed in the ceiling, and which becomes a
partition wall when more rooms are needed; the second contains the bathroom and
stairs; the third the kitchen; and the last three the living room. The top
floor, under the roof flaps, houses an attic that is a free-flowing space with
a double facade that opens up to the sea views towards the southwest and to the
forest towards the northeast. It is a space that flows out onto the living room
without a designated use, and that can perform as a guest bedroom, tai-chi room
or playing area for kids.
The house combines two different systems: prefabricated construction
(2D) for the attic and modular construction (3D) for the ground floor. The
modules were built in the facilities of the construction company IDM in the Madrid town of Valdemoro.
These modules were built with a structure of beams and galvanized steel columns
and with floor and ceiling slabs of composite decking with reinforced concrete.
The facade walls are dovetail sandwich panels formed of two sheets of lacquered
aluminum and an 80-millimeter-thick polyurethane web plate. Several layers of
waterproofing stretch beneath the furring strips to which the exterior facades
are fixed. Towards the interior, a ventilated air cavity of 20 centimeters lets
the structure go through, and there is a perimetral panelling of plasterboard
with 46 millimeters
of rock wool. The result is a 30-centimeter-thick wall with a ventilated facade
cavity, interior cavity and 12 centimeters of total insulation. After an
assembly trial in the factory, and after making sure that everything fit in properly,
the different modules and trusses of the building were taken apart to be packed
and moved in trailers the whole 700 kilometers separating the factory from the
remote seaside site where its was to be installed. All the parts were put
together again on the designated site in just three days, and the finishing
touch-ups were done in the following two weeks.
The end result is a high-quality product,
designed with high standards of energy efficiency and whose manufacturing
entails a contribution to environmental balance, because the generation of
polluting residues and emissions is controlled. The very name of the piece
stresses its main assett: a house that is manufactured, not built. Something
that reminds us of the efficient chain production of the industrial warehouse,
covered and controlled, unlike traditional construction that is at the mercy of
external elements that can affect the construction process. One could say that
this type of manufacturing moves towards a sustainable architecture which makes
a responsible use of the limited resources available.
this vacation house located in the Galician municipality of Cedeira
is a good example of the many possibilities that modular construction, up to
now associated with catalogue houses, offers today.
The program demanded by the client, along with the
unique site of the house and modulation
and transportation needs of prefabricated construction, inspired the design of
this house built by the young Madrid
studio MYCC, formed by Carmina Casajuana, Beatriz G. Casares and Marcos
González.
The house is located on a steep slope, in a remote
location in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula,
an area dominated by the imposing presence of the ocean and the slender forest
of eucalyptus trees surrounding it. The terrain is surrounded by harvest
fields, family farms and pitched roof houses. This image, protected by the
area’s building codes, determined the geometry of the house that, simplified up
to the point of evoking the basic house, was conceived as an autonomous piece
that sits as a landscape observer and that speaks, with new terms, about the
traditional language of the place. The volume was wrapped with two materials
with the purpose of setting up a dialogue with the landscape. The roof and the
side facades were covered with Viroc®, a prefabricated mixture of cement and
wood shavings that, because of its gray color, recalls the wood of eucalyptus
trees. This fibercement has a great strength efficiency in spite of being light
and, therefore, is easy to maintain and move. The two main facades of the house
were clad with perforated Cor-ten trays following the schematized image of a
forest silhouette, recreating the image of the surrounding vegetation. This
material was chosen because it is part of the local tradition of fishing towns
like Cedeira, used for the construction of boat hulls, and the gradual and
controlled oxidation of which gives the material self-protecting qualities. Its
patina and changing color create a lively image that relates with the natural
environment. This interplay between the natural and the artificial also
benefits the interior spaces, where the light that crosses through these silhouettes
casts shadows of trees in the different rooms.
Being a vacation house, the interior spaces are
free-flowing and open up to the unique landscape, turning it into the
protagonist. The six modules that make up the house, of approximately 6 meters in length and 3 in width (the maximum
reasonable width to enable their transportation by trailer) organize the
program as follows: the first one contains the bedroom, which can be divided
into two thanks to a blind concealed in the ceiling, and which becomes a
partition wall when more rooms are needed; the second contains the bathroom and
stairs; the third the kitchen; and the last three the living room. The top
floor, under the roof flaps, houses an attic that is a free-flowing space with
a double facade that opens up to the sea views towards the southwest and to the
forest towards the northeast. It is a space that flows out onto the living room
without a designated use, and that can perform as a guest bedroom, tai-chi room
or playing area for kids.
The house combines two different systems: prefabricated construction
(2D) for the attic and modular construction (3D) for the ground floor. The
modules were built in the facilities of the construction company IDM in the Madrid town of Valdemoro.
These modules were built with a structure of beams and galvanized steel columns
and with floor and ceiling slabs of composite decking with reinforced concrete.
The facade walls are dovetail sandwich panels formed of two sheets of lacquered
aluminum and an 80-millimeter-thick polyurethane web plate. Several layers of
waterproofing stretch beneath the furring strips to which the exterior facades
are fixed. Towards the interior, a ventilated air cavity of 20 centimeters lets
the structure go through, and there is a perimetral panelling of plasterboard
with 46 millimeters
of rock wool. The result is a 30-centimeter-thick wall with a ventilated facade
cavity, interior cavity and 12 centimeters of total insulation. After an
assembly trial in the factory, and after making sure that everything fit in properly,
the different modules and trusses of the building were taken apart to be packed
and moved in trailers the whole 700 kilometers separating the factory from the
remote seaside site where its was to be installed. All the parts were put
together again on the designated site in just three days, and the finishing
touch-ups were done in the following two weeks.
The end result is a high-quality product,
designed with high standards of energy efficiency and whose manufacturing
entails a contribution to environmental balance, because the generation of
polluting residues and emissions is controlled. The very name of the piece
stresses its main assett: a house that is manufactured, not built. Something
that reminds us of the efficient chain production of the industrial warehouse,
covered and controlled, unlike traditional construction that is at the mercy of
external elements that can affect the construction process. One could say that
this type of manufacturing moves towards a sustainable architecture which makes
a responsible use of the limited resources available.
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