Hernandez house by Vora Architecture

In urban areas, the building is situated on a corner of two narrow streets, so as to avoid a direct relationship with them, closing the housing on the ground and first floor into an open space inside, controlled and thermally beneficial. Conversely, the attic opens wide to the terrace on the street, which allows visual beyond to the sea, above the church.

Hernandez house by Vora Architecture


As volume, the building is aligned in height to adjacent buildings on both streets to the front giving to achieve urban integration with the immediate surroundings. Closed and blind façades, the building is not popular away regional architectural language, whitewashed walls, with few holes and rather small, without ceasing to be a building of contemporary references.

The house is organized around a courtyard and a centerpiece of services that the circulation structure. The width of the patio is aligned to the required minimum setback for the attic, so to integrate the body volume level of the attic and the building is read as a whole. The courtyard space is used as extension of the house, visual and physical level, protected climatically, becoming a wide output abroad without losing domestic privacy, and is configured as the heart of the house to where they open all the parts habitable.

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The building is constructed simply and economically, with bearing walls of ceramic blocks termoarcilla type throughout its thickness to condense all the functions that must meet a perimeter wall (structural, thermal and acoustic insulation ), plastered and painted on the outside and trim and white plaster on the inside.



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