L’Alzina by Jaime Prous Architects places 23 white homes on a hill
Jaime Prous Architects is designing a fancy of twenty-three whites home unfold over a dense pine forest on a hill in Caldes de Malavella, Spain. Gently descending to a panorama of meadows and lakes, the positioning is roofed underneath the thick shade of pine timber, whereas the structure hides among the many greenery in a delicate and stunning gesture. Every home is shaped from cubes in several proportions, positioned at completely different ranges, adapting to the pure terrain. The white geometric volumes are grouped collectively to cut back the visible affect overlooking the views from the very best level of the hill.
all photos by Alejo Bagué
the design is paying homage to vernacular Mediterranean structure
The design workforce at Jaime Prous Architects attracts on vernacular Mediterranean structure to design the L’Alzina residential complicated. All housing items share the identical options and shade palette, with earthy purple for the flooring contrasting with the greenery of the placement, and pure white for the remainder of the structure, home windows, partitions and ceilings, which resemble whitewashed Spanish. villages. The normal fashions of minimal homes with small decorative components, excessive ceilings and huge wall areas are repeated within the venture.
The obvious monotony of the construction is interrupted by 5 kinds of dwellings, which adapt to the variable topography by forming on two ranges, with entrances on each, preserving the unique sloping land and hilly panorama. The construction consists of twenty-three cubes open on three sides and supplied with a non-public terrace, veranda and geared up with a swimming pool overlooking the dense pine forest. The structure of straightforward strains and geometric rhythms relates organically to the encircling panorama, with out imposing itself on it.
the white geometric volumes merge with the pure setting
Jaime Prous Architects attracts inspiration from vernacular Mediterranean structure for the design of L’Alzina
the volumes of the housing complicated create a panorama constructed of various views and orientations
