the volumes that form the house are visually related through the patio. The dialogue with the garden is produced in a contained manner with punctual and limited openings. Three of these four volumes are on the ground floor. The fourth, on two floors, has a large sliding window facing south and looking towards the views of the valley.
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All the rooms except the children’s room are located on the first floor so that the dining room, kitchen and master bedroom can be seen through the courtyard. Looking north from the dining room through the courtyard, you can see the planting of the next house on the bedroom of the one-story house.
The dark ground floor module houses the public areas of the house, giving access to it through a wooden hallway, which unifies the pedestrian and parking entrance and whose height receives the visitor in an intimate environment. Once this first contact with the dwelling is approached, the main door opens to a double height space, illuminated by a window to the east and in which the entrance hall focuses the visual perspective towards the olive tree in the backyard.
This is a unique space, which openly gives way to the dining room-kitchen, arranged in such a way that it becomes a single space of coexistence and opens completely to the patio located in the back easement of the house.
The upper floor, materially conceived in brick, houses the private area and is composed of three rooms.