CS House

Interior.

Project details

• Project Name: CS House
• Project Type: Housing
• Principal Designer/s: Miguel A. Alonso Del Val, Rufino J. Hernandez Minguillon And Marcos Escartin Miguel (AH Asociados)
• Design Team: AH Asociados (Marcos Escartin and Carlos Barvo)
• Technical Architects: Jordi Armada Soler y Joan Salate i Bosquet
• Engineering: Ed Enginyeria
• Contractor: CS Actuacions Urbanistiques Industrials, S.L.
• Date of completion of project : JULY 2002
• Location of site: Cami Ral de Barcelona, 36 - Sentmenat (Barcelona)
• Built-up Area: 613 m2
• Cost of Construction/Execution: 266,256 €

North-east elevation.

Words from the designer

This house is located in an area dotted with residential buildings. Building a house that creates an isolated world for its inhabitants requires a simple but determined execution. It has been necessary to make the most of the views by making use of the elevated position of the plot to protect it from the impact of adjacent buildings.

Interior.

The "S" section allows the opening up of the bedrooms and living room to the garden that is protected by vegetation. The first floor has the opposite orientation so that the light enters directly into its rooms. In this floor the opaque level that turns into a far image of the house protects the terrace, a floor opened to the sky in the folded level, which is the private and intimate place of the house.

South-east elevation.

The folded "S" section floats above a cut in the ground with a "C" form that in its opening empties the site and leaves a hole above which the house is constructed. The access floor is located in the basement floor and discovers the dynamic section of the house. The sides are opened and glazed so that the folding of the section is shown.

South-west elevation.

Credits

• Text by AH Asociados
• Photographs: Hisao Suzuki