WATA - World Architecture Technal Awards Edition 2019 | Page 36

AWARD INDIVIDUAL HOUSING
Family Home Calders, Barcelona,
Spain
Architect Agency
Joan Ramon Pascuets, Mònica Mosset
Owner
Private
Technal Metal Builder
Aluantrax
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This house of 240 square meters, executed with a budget
of 215,000 euros, is in the limit of the urban nucleus of the
population and enjoys spectacular views of the natural park
of Sant Llorenç del Munt i l’Obac. To highlight the privileged
environment, a structure of horizontal concrete slabs and
H-shaped steel pillars has been created to free up the space
and eliminate the partitions, generating continuity and diluted
limits between the interior and the exterior.
This permanent visual connection is achieved by proposing
a regular parallelepiped closed to the north and east, and
completely open to the garden and landscape to the south
and west.
The aluminium joineries are installed from wall to wall and
from floor to ceiling, generating a transparent facade serves
as a viewpoint. Far from being limited to visual perception, this
inside-out relationship extends to the use of spaces, allowing
owners to move freely between the inside and the outside to
enjoy each place depending on the time of day, the time of year
or the weather conditions.
The aesthetics of the façade and interiors are deliberately
“unfinished”. We had to build with less than 900 € per square
meter - comments Joan Ramon Pascuets - therefore, everything
we have placed in the work had to be essential. We have mainly
ensured the comfort for the users and the maximum energy
efficiency of the house, leaving to future interventions eventual
improvements of the finishes”.
The ground floor is an L shape with a side of 12 meters and
another of 9 meters with the open corner. It was necessary to
install a sliding system capable of opening the house completely
and at the same time maintain optimum insulation and security.
GALENE sliders have been installed, which allow the installation
of large windows and ensure easy manoeuvrability, thanks to
its lifting system. On the first floor, on the other hand, the visual
lightness of the aluminium profiles of the SOLEAL system was
privileged, providing high insulating performance with a very
refined aesthetic.