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Compluvium House, Madrid, Spain by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
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The ancient Greeks, Etruscans and Romans implemented in their aristocratic residences a new architectural system known as compluvium, designed to divert rainwater into the impluvium. This structure, located in the heart of the domus, not only had an initial practical function of expelling smoke from internal fires, but also evolved to improve funda...
Project name
Compluvium House
Architecture firm
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location
Madrid, Spain
Photography
Jesús Orrico
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Casa Sabater, Alicante, Spain by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
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Sabater House exhibits an intriguing dichotomy: a white house, essentially minimalist, with a layout and implementation that integrates it much more into its surroundings than one might expect. The combination of influences from the modernity of Álvaro Siza and the sculptural forms of Andreu Alfaro helps explain how Sabater House manages to be simu...
Project name
Casa Sabater
Architecture firm
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location
Alicante, Spain
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG. Video: Jesús Orrico
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Pati Blau House in Valencia, Spain by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
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The Valencia-based architecture studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has recently completed Pati Blau a minimal residence located in Valencia, Spain. It was in the Muslim era when the so-called farmhouses were concentrating the population of the Ribera Alta, although some of these settlements had an Iberian origin. Over time these population centers h...
Project name
Pati Blau House
Architecture firm
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Location
Valencia, Spain
Photography
Diego Opazo, Jesús Orrico (Video)
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