Domestic Work Matter

Architects: Arturo Blanco Herrero, Alegría Colón Mur
Team: Juan Carlos Casillas, Silvia Peñalvo, Alfonso Blanco, Sergio Azofra
Survetor: Ángel García García
Plaza de la Iglesia 4 NARRILLOS DE SAN LEONARDO
Avila Spain
05/2013
Contractor: FUENCO

Is proposed solve a living a space to live and work in a corner opposite the church building.

The vernacular architecture of the environment has solid masonry walls of gray granite and tile roofs without eaves, the roofs perch on the walls at a distance, as untouched. These gaps were the beginning to manage the distances and connections between functions.

A space to work as a solid foundation built with poured concrete, tinted and textured and over this a domestic space, separate but supported, distant and slipped. The domestic space is covered with light limestone topography.

It is managed from the boundary into the street at a right angle and an inner emptiness faceted, facing north, as an extension of the workspace. The heavy matter descends and the light one ascends, building a new reference that dignifies the square.

The domestic and work matter are grouped, stacked and connected.

It investigates how to reuse materials from previous building works that have been unexecuted waiting for better times, with this materials the formwork that shapes the new reinforced concrete are generated. Their turn has come ….

The field work is related to granitic vernacular sockets and becomes technical molding the on site concrete with a formwork that reuses onduline roofing sheets where in addition to their shapes, their origin, texture and even color, is marked in the concrete.