M A M I h o u s e

They came to me and asked me to design a 160 m² house for €80,000.
I told them it wasn't possible. I asked them raise the price a bit, and to think about it.

Poetry is not the exclusive property of the wealthy.

A few days later they returned; they could go as high as €100,000.
I love a good headache!

The plot covered an area of 390 m² and foresaw a built area of 110 m² (with a maximum capacity of 220 m² on two floors).There wasn't any money for this.
I proposed a house with 9 x 9 x 6 m, 2 floors, 162 m².

The floors set out the programme: the social and service functions would be on the ground floor,
three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.

In order to meet the budget, we identified the most expensive components of a work.

1. We limited the number of bathrooms (only two for the two floors, just one with a bath).

2. We chose energy efficiency rather than finishing materials. The house is a mini-bunker: a reinforced concrete structure, bare on the inside, covered with 8 and 10 cm ETICS (External Thermal Insulation Composite System) on the outside.

3. The same austerity was used in rationalising the quite small available area.
In the middle of the ground floor, a 5.2 x 3.7 m block contains the kitchen, the toilet, the stairs (with a storage space in the garret) and the bookcase of the ling room.
The rest of the space was divided without using partitions.

We were out by €10,000.