Can Bau / Paloma Bau Studio + Viraje arquitectura
- Space:
800 m²
12 months:
2023
Producers: Gessi, Adriana Cabello, ENTREPINS – TEJAS BORJA-
Lead Architects:
Paloma Bau y Jesus Herranz
Textual content description supplied by the architects. Out of all of the initiatives chosen by the Architects Associations, the jury of Structure Prizes selected Can Bau as one of many finalist initiatives, the summer time residence that hosts three households inn, able to cease the clock and let themselves be carried away by an everlasting summer time.
Can Bau is a venture carried out by the collaboration of Paloma Bau Studio and Viraje Arquitecture Workplace, which was additionally answerable for the development of the dwelling. Moraira is the context of Can Bau, a small city within the Costa Blanca space, with a fishing custom and 7 seashores. Historic buildings, fortified church buildings, castles, and partitions coexist with sand and stone seashores and climbing trails.
Whenever you enter Can Bau, take your time, give up your self with calm, and relive the perfect of {the summertime} at any time of the 12 months. As quickly as you stroll by the door, you uncover a big window that connects you on to the outside space, flanked by a patio, enhancing the connection between the indoor and outside area that exists in the home. The continual paving turns into a guiding thread and invitations us to begin the journey by a home with out hierarchies the place all the things is shared.
The home is distributed on a single ground with two distinct areas. The night time space homes three double bedrooms, two loos and a fourth bed room unique for the youngsters. The day space is taken into account a big open area with nice top below a sloping roof; right here is the place the open kitchen is situated with its built-in furnishings, an island overlooking the pool and a eating room ruled by an enormous couch which is sort of 5 meters lengthy, situated in entrance of the fireside.
Constructed historically, utilizing handbook means and with solely 4 supplies, steady concrete paving, lime mortar cladding – and steady – stone and ceramics, it blends in with nature and the habitat of the positioning. The dwelling adapts to the plot, which has a fancy topography and nice unevenness, producing three platforms separated by barely two steps that differentiate the principle makes use of: the night time space, the day space and the swimming pool.
The furnishings of the moist areas, kitchen, barbecue and outside areas is resolved with masonry components, showing as annexed volumes that emanate from the ground and partitions, clad in the identical supplies. The inside and exterior furnishings combines handcrafted components, such because the esparto grass lamps made in an area basket maker’s workshop, with restored vintage components or furnishings created advert hoc with supplies out of context, such because the 4-meter-long outside desk, whose materials is identical as that of the swimming pool.
All of the textiles in the home are in impartial tones, with linen predominating. The metallic joinery and equipment stand out from the impartial palette of the home, all in black, giving a extra up to date character to the entire. The result’s delicate, singular and calm. A refuge that appeals to sensations of holism, heat, calm and belonging. As a result of, because the venture’s technical crew factors out, “The essential factor in Can Bau isn’t the how or the the place, however the with whom”.
