*화이트 폴딩 스페이스 [ Fran Silvestre Architects ] House On The Rocks

무엇으로 이것을 정의할 수 있을까?

모던, 리니어, 지오메트릭, 엘레강스 그리고 기괴한 암석?

이 모든 단어들은 함축적인 공간으로 표현되어 외부의 황량한 암석들 사이에

백색의 레지던스로 정의 된다.

절제된 다면의 형태는 거친 원석사이에 놓여진 보석과 같다.

폴딩된 공간 사이로 떨어지는 빛의 그림자가 공간의 깊이감을 표현해 주둣이

형태를 깊이를 알 수 없는 공간의 꺽임은 우리네 산수의 배치와 같이

곂곂이 쌓여 있고 감추어져 있다.

공간과 공간 사이, 그리고 교묘하게 비틀어져서 꺽여 있는 공간의 틈 사이

그리고 이 모든 어휘를 감싸는 화이트는 외부에서는 황량한 암석들과 대비를 이루며

내부에서는 깊은 그림자로 강한 대비감을 준다.

얼마나 많은 스터디를 했을까?

얼마나 많은 대지 분석을 했을까?

얼마나 많은 밤을 세웠을까?

강렬한 심플함이 정말 나를 매료시키는 프로젝트이다.

reviewed by SJ

The “Casa en la ladera de un castillo” or “House on the Slope of a Castle,” (hereinafter referred to as House on the Rocks), is a remarkable minimalist home designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. The residence itself is modern, linear, geometric, elegant and stunningly stark white jutting out from a mountainside overlooked by a castle and is located in Ayora near Valencia.  This single-family residence has been designed to “integrate into the environment, respecting the strategies of adaptation to the environment using non mimesis materials that would lead to misleading historicism, thereby showing the time constructively to meet the requirements of the “new dwellers.”

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Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location: Ayora, Valencia, Spain
Project Architects: Fran Silvestre, Mª José Sáez
Project Team: Pedro Vicente López López, José Ángel Ruíz Millo, José Vicente Miguel López, Fernando Usó Martín, Javier Cardós Elena
Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann
Site Area: 477 square meters
Project Area: 230 square meters
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Fernando Alda

The stark white single-family residence is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth, against the stunning natural backdrop. The mountain, crowned by a castle, is covered by individual houses juxtaposed mutually as they entwine a disjointed white fabric adapted to the extraordinary topography.  The “House on the Rocks” proposes architecture that integrates into the environment - this was also the design challenge, with respect to their policy of adjustment to the natural setting.  With this in mind, the house is conceived as a volume positioned into the rocky mountainside; a volume which uses white lime and a sense of constructive continuity reduces openings to a minimum expression. It conveys all of this whilst making the most of the plot's contours and conforming to the disintegration of the surrounding environment.

The “House on the Rocks” was designed with three main factors in mind: The owners demanded privacy and sun washed interiors, as well as available budget, the third factor which they had to consider at all times.  In its interior, the three-storey house was designed with a void which acted as a divider, the void acting as the core of communication cut a parallel disposition of the mountain without touching it.   Additionally, this void is adjacent to a skylight which allows for abundant natural lighting which flows through the interiors.

The cellar can be found on the ground floor, on the first floor one comes across the children’s bedrooms and a bathroom which open up to a private street.  The master bedroom on the upper floor overlooks the houses across the street and the Valley of Ayora.  While on the top floor, one will also find the study, an open plan kitchen with the dining room and the living room.  The study is opened in turn to central double height, incorporating it into the space.

The interiors of the residence follow the same minimal scheme as the exterior architecture.  The interior design of this residence is so minimal that one could easily mistake it for being of Japanese origin.  White limestone finishing’s cover the flooring throughout the house where the walls have been painted in a cool white tone, while white lacquered MDF doors and the kitchen have been painted in an unruffled white tone of RAL 9010.  The interior reflects the light onto the white-washed walls from the many openings throughout.  Simple lines and geometric spaces with privacy and abundant natural lighting are formed within the residence, having thus accomplished the demands of the clients.  Overall, the “House on the Rocks” is a remarkable house which is simple, with its white geometric volumes which pierce the existing landscape, although it is built into the stunning natural backdrop.

from  contemprist