CONCRETE HOUSE II - Madrid/Spain

work finished in 2011

It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5,000 m2 plot. It is a single storey building and it has a 1,600 m2 built surface.

The first sensation that this house produces when people go into the plot is that the building seems to be hidden

between concrete walls and vegetable ramps that extend up to the roof. They are dyed in dark gray and contain, between them,

vegetation areas that seem to climb towards the sky. The house´s façade show a spectacular organic view of the whole

house and so even the hard concrete shows its most kind face.
 



The back front of the house is totally opened towards the garden where the lounge, dining room, library, study and bedrooms are. 

In this façade the wide windows, the volumes set and the projections (made of concrete too enhance. These elements cover the 

several house´s porches. The large window of the main lounge hides itself automatically in order to make this stay completely opened to the exterior areas.



The plot includes also an elegant garden, a small lake and a padel track.

The ecological aspect is very in this A-cero´s work: the façade and the roof have the main ecological roles because

they are covered with low consume vegetation. Furthermore on the house´s roof has been implemented a renewable energy system made of wide surfaces with solar tubular collectors who allow that the energy autonomy of the house.

FAMILY HOUSE IN PAVILNIAI REGIONAL PARK

The customer is a banker and antique book collector. A four member family house.
In the Middle Ages the area, where the building is situated, was a cannon foundry. Customers bought a site where stood the old yellow brick lodge with a basement. Cleaning the plaster of a house revealed that the lodge had been built by ancient bricks which were made in a old Vilnius brick factories. Becouse of a historical and physical value of a house were considered to preserve it by wrapping it with outer glass shape. Historical house structure have been carefully restored.
Library of a collection of ancient books equipped in the basement of historical lodge. On the ground floor- childrens bedrooms and in the attic-masterbedrooms.
At the glass shape zone in the basement we can find the turkish bath with a rest rooms and a garage for two cars.
On the ground floor there are living room, kitchen, dining room and a wardrobe.
Glass form is not an end to itself. From each point on the ground floor area on a 360 degrees offers fantastic views of regional park.
Ground floor space is like a yard of a historical lodge.



STRUCTURE AND MATERIALS

- The constructive of a building is monolithic reinforced concrete and steel frame
- SCHUCO aluminum glass facade system
- PVC roofing PROTAN SE
- Geothermal heating
- Staircase, fireplace, library shelves are metal sheet structure
- Southern and eastern side of the facades are equipped with an automatic protection from the sun
- net facade system TINKLELIS
- Floor coverings
- APAVISA PPORCELANICO stone tiles
- Furniture of ground floor area made from TRESPA ATHLON panels
- Outdoor trails and access roads is from basalt stone blocks
- Site surrounded by metal fence without the horizontal beams

Modern House