2C HOUSES | Vaillo + Irigaray Architects

Navarra / Spain / 2010

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As many others, all over Ribera’s (“River Bank”) landscape, meandering poplar rows normally escort the entire length of river beds and irrigation ditches. Far in the distance, river beds are spotted thanks to those winding rows: it is a gesture offered by nature as a sign of life in an arid, dry scene. Corella, a village in the Ribera of Navarra, is traversed by the ever-present Cañete, a small meandering stream that comes and goes in every corner…


The assignment of three houses for three different clients proposes a reflection about unity and diversity, about the image of both individuality and group…


The lot – traversed by Cañete River as well-, placed on the expanding boundary of the village, slopes down to the south… advantage of this circumstance is taken to arrange a house that is sheltered from the north and exposed to the south…


Constructive strategy is based on digging and containing the soil by means of a longitudinal wall, then laying a glass box varying in size according to every use required by clients. Somewhere between the ground and the glass, small courtyards have been released, as if they were small air and light bubbles. On the zigzagging glass plinth, small volumes assigned to garages and studios have been sat.


The houses suggest a changing image, prompted by the façade crooked geometry and the latticework vertical movement, that offer a meandering scenery, as poplar

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En el campo de la ribera, como en muchos otros, hileras serpenteantes de chopos suelen acompañar a los cauces de ríos y acequias. A lo lejos, se detecta el cauce por esas hileras sinuosas: es un gesto que la naturaleza ofrece como signo de vida en un entorno árido y seco. Este pueblo de la ribera, está ensartado por el omnipresente cañete, riachuelo serpenteante que aparece y desaparece en cada esquina…
El encargo de tres casas, para tres diferentes clientes, propone una reflexión acerca de la unidad y la diversidad, de la imagen de la individualidad y el conjunto…
La parcela –también atravesada por el cañete- situada en la nueva línea de expansión del pueblo, tiene un desnivel hacia el sur…ocasión que se aprovecha para organizar una casa protegida del norte y abierta al sol.
Las casas proponen una imagen cambiante provocada por la geometría quebrada de la fachada y por el movimiento vertical de las celosías que ofrecen una lectura serpenteante similar a las hileras de chopos.
La estrategia constructiva se basa en excavar, contener el terreno mediante un muro longitudinal e introducir una caja de vidrio que va adquiriendo el tamaño de los usos que cada cliente requiere. Entre el terreno y la caja de vidrio se liberan pequeños patios que actúan como pequeñas burbujas de aire y luz. Sobre el zócalo zig-zagueante de vidrio se apoyan pequeños volúmenes destinados a garajes y estudios.

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    As many others, all over Ribera’s (“River Bank”) landscape, meandering poplar rows normally escort the entire length of river beds and irrigation ditches. Far in the distance, river beds are spotted thanks to those winding rows: it is a gesture offered by nature as a sign of life in an arid, dry scene. Corella, a village in the Ribera of Navarra, is traversed by the ever-present Cañete, a small meandering stream that comes and goes in every corner… The...

    Project details
    • Year 2010
    • Work finished in 2010
    • Contractor CONSTRUCCIONES MARTÍNEZ MELLADO
    • Status Completed works
    • Type Single-family residence
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