Modern Minimalis Home Design by Antonio Altarriba Comes

A good architectural design must not only adequately address the functional distribution of space or the proper execution of architectural detail, but must offer their own, which characterizes the project, we talk about the concerns of the operator, or even the resident concerns, if it is already defined, which is often the case when it comes to single-family housing projects.

The first highlight, principle that governs visual unit housing complex known as BAM-2, a unit was not easy to achieve if we consider that the project brings together three types of housing: detached typology (Type A) Paired and two different types (Types B and C).

This unit achieved with the management of volumes, material and color, with a stone and dark body acting in the whole shot, and a socket, which opens to small gardens which cohabiting the green carpet of grass and the clear crystal pools.

But the highlight of unity is that from the outside, we tried to preserve it without resorting to feel monotonous recurring parts, a feeling which one can be irrevocably doomed if you work with semi-detached houses. The alternation of the types, the arrangement of type C understood as the set piece shot in both ends of the development, and awareness of the perspective effect that generates the slope, make the overall picture, it understood as sum of disparate parts that grouped together or stand indifferently, getting the unit suggestive of the variety sought by the contemporary architecture, and the interesting thing is that everything is appearance, and the pieces are, in some cases the same, which saves the implementation process. Another interesting aspect of the project will discover if you go in the houses, the research on the patio.

Since its inception, the architect felt a special predilection for getting inside your house to breathe, not only air, light and images through the skin of the facade, but right from the mainland, but since ancient times and provided the patio. It is true that the playground from a strictly functional analysis has been used only when the architecture did not have enough front to provide air and light to the interiors, but it is also true that since postmodernism taken on new ways that we stress the need of a variety, even a contradiction in architecture. According to the latest architectural proposals, look for the patio, even when apparently not necessary to provide the lyrical poetry, to the interiors. On this occasion we found one of his proposals, for the sake of not losing surface, the limited patio so that it becomes a vacuum sculpture that pierces the heart of housing. Its small size, and it walls entirely of glass, allowing light and air to filter tenuously, and even becomes part of the home of the nice visual sensation of falling rain water on stormy days. But that glass sculpture is the courtyard, not only speaks of poetry, but also serves as the focal point of the space, perhaps the third point in this remarkable project. Spaces that flow helical around this heart of glass visually connecting certain points in the home.

Regarding the resolution on the ground of space, collecting a composition in three bands, ranging from public to private, without renouncing to exploit outer space, with the opening of large windows that allow households to enjoy the privilege views of the gardens, and providing the interior air quality, including areas of transition generated abroad, especially in the area of ??access, where it seems the home front have been sunk in the plane of the stone volume higher enabling a covered space that houses the inhabitants to enjoy the couple set garden and pool.

With this last gesture of approximation of the pool, to get into a suggestive light effect, the water level gets to collect the reflections of light that enter the interior of the house. Effect, again, of great lyricism, which is accentuated in the dark of night, the illuminated pool their light blue does reverberate in the interiors.