This Spanish vacation home is composed by simple rectangle volumes shifted in plan to create a dynamic aesthetic despite the limited space of the plot. Fluted concrete walls sliced by continuous window openings define this villa as a combination of horizontal stripes alternating solid and glass.
Architecture firm
NOMO STUDIO
Photography
Joan Guillamat
Principal architect
Alicia Casals
Design team
Karl Johan Nyqvist, Jennifer Mendez, Mira Botseva, Blanca Algarra
Collaborators
Windmill Structures, Technal
Structural engineer
Windmill
Environmental & MEP
NOMO STUDIO
Tools used
Revit, Enscape
Construction
Construcciones Fernández Nájera
Material
Concrete, Stone, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
Ensamble Studio: Ca'n Terra is the house of the earth: first just that, earth; after quarry, voided from its Mares stone; then used by the military as ammunition dump during the Spanish Civil War and later abandoned, to be rediscovered decades later and come to be architecture.
Architecture firm
Ensamble Studio
Photography
Ensamble Studio
Principal architect
Antón García-Abril & Debora Mesa Molina
Design team
Javier Cuesta, Borja Soriano, Alvaro Catalan, Massimo Loia, Marco Antrodicchia, Sebastián Zapata, Arianna Sebastiani, Ekam Sahni, Yu-Ting Li, Joel Kim, Gonzalo Peña, Barbara Doroszuk, Yvonne Asiimwe, Mónica Acosta
Environmental & MEP
Urculo engineering
Construction
Ensamble Studio
Typology
Residential › House
