Barcelona, ES
The project is a construction of an auxiliary building for a single-family dwelling. The existing dwelling has a surrounding garden that covers the new building. The plot has a slope between the upper road and the lower level of the south-east limit. The distribution design counts with a kitchen, a dining room, a cellar, a living room, and a studio/bedroom area with a fully-equipped bathroom.
The garden design has a stone stairway that connects the two levels of the project: the garden upstairs and the new entrance downstairs. The pre-cast concrete hollow cores labs leave a space between them. They allow light inside the pavilion through three skylights along the whole length of the plan. This solution organizes the garden on the roof, making visible four different linear planters. Each of them with a different color have a dominant flower. The last row is a pool that collects rain-water and has aquatic vegetation that biologically filters the recycled water. The purified water is brought to the natural pool on the lower level through a small water-falls guided by sloped corten sheets.
On the pavilion’s roof, a drystone wall is built with limestone from the area. Behind this wall, a planter contains a tamarisk tree meant to bring shade on the small paved area of the rooftop. The water, with its sound and movement, has been considered as project material. On the covered floor, a viewpoint area with a wooden bench around a drystone wall, with limestone blocks from the area. Behind the stone wall is a garden with a sieve that protrudes from the wall. There is shades in the small area of the roof that is paved: a space of rest. The operation of landscaping the roof is designed to cut the loss of space in the upper garden. It establishes a visual continuity with the Mediterranean Sea as the backdrop.
Status: Under Construction