Coudelaria / Studio Arthur Casas

- Space:
1400 m²
Yr:
2022
Producers: Gaggenau, Artegiano, Eurocentro, Girometal, Itaarte, Neobambu, Pedro Petry, Punto, SANTA MADEIRA, Vallvé, mado

Textual content description offered by the architects. The 2 initiatives carried out by Studio had as their convergence the target of equivalent to the magnitude of the area by which they’re situated and the weather that encompass it. The primary one to be carried out was the Pavilion with the leisure space, whose program presents a pool, barbecue space, gourmand kitchen, cellar, recreation space, spa, therapeutic massage room, and fitness center; all these areas are distributed in a purposeful approach in an open and linked flooring plan, supreme for holding conferences, attending to the shopper’s briefing – who’s all the time receiving family and friends for celebrations.


Along with this demand, there was additionally the necessity to conceive a showroom to show their horses to shoppers, so a big landscaped space was deliberate with particulars in its materiality that contributed to the prominence of the attractive animals and emphasised their class. An instance is the touches of Portuguese tiles, which confer with the proprietor’s origins and create a harmonious composition with the wood partitions and ceiling. Portuguese influences additionally seem in different elements of the undertaking, such because the stone partitions, impressed by the constructions within the inside of Portugal, with supplies comparable to charred wooden, burnt cement flooring, textured sand or earth-colored paint, and the romantic facet of the landscaping, referring to the Portuguese countryside.

The second undertaking was a visitor home with 14 rooms, all with non-public gardens and entry to a patio, the place an attractive water mirror is situated. This atmosphere is linked to the Pavilion by materiality, with the addition of Portuguese tiles and wood elements. The home windows of the rooms have frames with watertight wood blinds, permitting for cross air flow between them.


The execution of the undertaking was optimized and expedited by design options, comparable to the choice to make the Pavilion with a completely prefabricated steel construction and a sandwich roof for higher thermal efficiency within the visitor home.


The Portuguese-influenced supplies give prominence to the highlighted parts of the undertaking, such because the stone pool with an infinity edge and the cellar with stone partitions and wood flooring.

The lighting was performed utilizing micro luminaires for the ceiling, and flooring luminaires have been put in to reinforce the partitions.
