a home overlooking the Mediterranean Sea
Studio based mostly in Girona 05 AM Structure results in the coastal cliffs of Catalonia to design his Home in Aiguablava. Occupying a excessive precipice, the Costa Brava Home overlooks the glowing waters, opening extensive to seize Mediterranean views, breezes and daylight with its sliding facade of bamboo strolling stick. Though the design suggests a single-story home perched on its web site, it subtly spans three ranges, nestling into the slope. Thus, the home maintains a humble and low presence whereas offering sufficient house for its occupants.
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the home harmonizes with the aiguablava rocks
In Aiguablava, the the design staff at 05:00 Arquitectura plans a home that’s concurrently searching and hidden from the road. Alongside the decrease stage, buried within the floor, the doorway to the home is sheltered by an ivy-covered retaining wall – guaranteeing the privateness of the sleeping areas.
‘The obvious quantity is positioned so far as doable in the direction of the road to unlock as a lot house as doable on the south aspect the place the home’s backyard will probably be.,’ write the architects, ‘thus skillfully resolving the dichotomy between having fun with magnificent views wanting north and a sunny backyard on the south aspect.’
The widespread areas of the house occupy the highest stage, enclosed on the north and south sides fully in a bamboo display screen. Whereas these screens are allowed to open as desired, the dwelling space turns into a shaded extension of the backyard, open to the pool and purple cliffs to the south, and the framed views of the Mediterranean Sea to the north.
05 am the playful use of bamboo by arquitectura
05 AM Arquitectura’s sliding bamboo facade creates playful shadows and transparencies, filters pure daylight alongside the interiors of Casa Aiguablava. ‘The home clearly and clearly reveals the pure look of its supplies,’ proceed the architects. ‘The reduction and irregularity and imperfection of the reeds present qualities which have additionally been translated into the sgraffito reduction of the lime mortar coating on the facade.Bamboo cane harmonizes with a palette of impartial supplies, together with concrete flooring and heat oak furnishings, which usually creates a peaceful and welcoming environment.
The staff concludes: ‘The home manages to blur the boundaries between inside and exterior, producing a continuity that flows between the sunny backyard and the magnificent sea views minimize by the rocky profile of Aiguablava. It defines a protected space, however very nicely linked to the instant environment, the place we discover the consolation and heat of contact with trustworthy and pure supplies..’
the home turns into a body for the views and an space of relationship with the sunny backyard
the dwelling house turns into an extension of the southern terrace
Full-height bamboo screens may be absolutely opened to rework interiors