Casa AZA

AZA House - The orange blossom house Once again, another surprising commission. The clients’ dream: To live in a house in the middle of an orange grove. But what they really have is a plot of land between party walls in the village. It is a drastic decision. To raise the house up and reproduce an orange grove at ground level, from which living spaces and courtyards will levitate, thus evoking a subtle effect of lights and shades. Resting on the two dividing walls acting as supporting walls, we define a series of functional boxes proportionally separated in plan as well as in section, creating a sequence of floating cubes on the orchard. By assigning specific functions to each cube, slight level changes give shape to the programme, improving the feel of walking, going round, going up and down from box to box, increasing the experience of living the spaces. By inserting courtyards from which orange trees can be seen, the house creates its own world: a true oasis of crossed sights, sunshine, shadow and the wonderful smell of orange blossom. A house that plays on the senses, phenomenological. As a final touch, a triple height space, empty, dull, with a series of panels as façade that are wall and furniture at the same time, plastic, functional, a special place to be reinvented day by day by its inhabitants. The materialization seeks to transform the relationship with the exterior through the development of a new type of wall, the MCP wall. It is an adaptable wall made from a series of glass layers, screens and deployé thin sheet that define changeable white boxes in transparency and opacity, according to the use of natural or digital criteria by the inhabitant.