GilBartolome: This house is placed in La Moraleja, Madrid, a suburban area of large luxury villas set in an environment full of trees and madrilenean undergrouth. The house is located on a privileged plot of 15,000 m² densely populated with pine and oak trees. The aim of the design is to integrate into the landscape and to promote, through architecture, an intimate family life linked to nature. It is also intended to offer a space for enjoying social life linked to the landscape.
The large plot has a slope that has been used to hide the house in the landscape. The design developed the idea too of creating a refuge close to the earth in the most private areas of the house, and open spaces to the south west, focusing the views towards the city of Madrid which is a few kilometers away.
The house is organized first of all as a courtyard house in which the rooms look at each other through the courtyard in a sort of subtle panopticon that avoids the human disconnection typical of very large houses and that we want to avoid at all costs. A large almond tree in the courtyard changes with the seasons, linking the life of the house to the time of nature. The other part of the house opens onto the garden and the landscape and houses the most open and social spaces of the house.
