Housing Stratified volumes

New construction in Pinseque.

Luis and Sara, a family couple with their twin daughters decide to contact Cronotopos to design their dream house in Zaragoza. A housing project of different volumes connected to each other through certain points, generating a diversity of flexible domestic and outdoor spaces for new CRONOS.

Surface area: 335 m2
Status: Project
Timeline: In 2021
Location: Pinseque, Zaragoza
Type of project: New construction

The stratified volumes is a project that arose from the need to develop a 335 m2 house on a 918 m2 lot, preserving the pre-existing nature of the site. To achieve this, a volumetry of different heights is developed to house the program of needs for the family, leaving enough space on the outside.

The desire to respect nature implies a very controlled study of the spaces, keeping the vegetation present. In these clearings in the plot were placed the four main volumes of the house, being these: the garage, the main entrance and kitchen-dining room, the living room and two bedrooms with a bathroom.

All these spaces are connected by a straight corridor that connects the different domestic rooms and also illuminates the house from the opening to its different patios. This project’s backbone serves not only as a communication point, but at the same time allows the different natural and architectural visuals that appear along its route to appear.

The single-family house has an upper floor with three more bedrooms, which are accessed by a staircase located at the end of our axis. On the opposite side, between the garage and the entrance to the house, there are stairs leading to the basement, which has two patios that modify the TOPOS and provide natural light to the underground floor.

It is worth mentioning the use of wood in the interior and exterior finishes of the single-family house, unifying with the natural surroundings of the house, the union of the greens and ochers of the vegetation and architecture.

This single-family house is the search and analysis of TOPOS, the implantation of the place, the respect for nature… and CRONOS, the spaces that evolve over time, the living and changing architecture through the years. The stratified housing project remains unbuilt for the moment, it is a project kept in the drawer, which serves as a reference and example that good architecture is not always related to its construction. We are aware that the house will not be built as we have proposed, but we are also aware that many of the architectural details found in it, will germinate in countless future projects located in Zaragoza, Alicante or wherever destiny takes us.