Housing Luces in Asturias

Modular house in Luces, Asturias.

This project begins with a reinterpretation of the traditional house, which is broken down into 4 smaller volumes, each one housing different forms of domestic habitation of the clients. This allows different TOPOS to be adapted but interrelated to each other through the CRONOS of a day.

Client: Monica and Marcelo
Surface area: 250.13 m2
Status: Project
Timeline: 2019 – Nov 2020
Location: Colunga, Asturias
Type of project: Modular Housing
Construction price: 297,603 euros

The house is composed of several volumes that are displaced, allowing cross looks between the different spaces, and open to the natural landscape that surrounds the house.

The first volume houses the gym and garage, marking the most immediate uses and forming the entrance to the house. The next two volumes are more interrelated, as they compose the dining room, study and kitchen space. These volumes have another entrance from the outside that would lead to the living room, generating an interstitial space that acts as a filter to the last volume containing the more private rooms.

The house takes advantage of the geometries of the traditional house to generate skylights that mark the paths. These light tears allow light to enter the interior of the pieces, and lighten the volumes.

The bedrooms open at the end to the garden inside the plot, which has a selection of pre-existing local trees. These trees filter the southern light allowing an intimate and warm space.

The house is built with a modular development using a woodframe structure. It allows a fast and light assembly, in addition to using more environmentally sustainable materials. Creating spatial richness by repeating a simple shape.

These gaps allow a spatial continuity but that is hidden, so that as you enter it you are framing different views to the interior and exterior of the project.

Unfortunately the project was never built, but it is still an exercise in reinterpreting the traditional house, a timeless typology whether in Zaragoza, Asturias or Alicante.

Recovering the vernacular but decomposing and reconstructing it to reach a modern solution adapted to current times.