29 semidetached rural houses

2007 | Competition - 2nd prize

3.620 m² - 2.465.000 €

Vilamarín - 29 semidetached rural houses, semidetached rural stone walls

Collaborators: Augusto Román

The project originates from its vocation of completing the village. In a gesture that emulates that of the buildings around the communal area of the hórreos*, the new houses are refolded about a new public space that gives them full meaning.

The proposal generates a space of meeting among the new neighbours and a new square for the people, linked to the church and to the existing monuments. A square with banks and trees, where the children can be brought together to play and the oldest to chat.

Collaborators: Augusto Román

The organization in fan gets all the lots to be opened towards the sun and the sights. So do the houses, which making use of the natural slope and the roof inclination are one story high on the north façade, with the accesses and garages, and they increase to two storeys on the southern façade, opening out to the private gardens that take the form of agricultural lots surrounded with low stone walls and are pulled towards the sights.

From the village, the only visible part of the ensemble are some attached tile roofs which are folded by under the horizon configuring the new edge of the consolidated village, hoping that such a popular material provides the sensation of a necessary familiarity.