Interior Light-Single Family Housing

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal

INTERIOR LIGHT-SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING

Viraje Architecture

LOCATION
Valencia, Spain

CATEGORY
Houses

ARCHITECTS
Viraje Architecture

AREA
363.0 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Germán Cabo Arnal

YEAR
2012

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal

Text description provided by architect.

The house is located in a village near Valencia on a narrow plot with 8,60m long facade and 15m long depth and another 5m long depth each side on the road to create main and back gardens.

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal

The main idea which generates the project is an internal courtyard that organizes each floor of the house.

The courtyard divides the diurnal space of the ground floor and emphasizes the views from one facade to other.

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal

It also selects the position of the staircase in the way that you are always conscious of the views of the courtyard and the relationship with the sky when the stairs are used.

On first floor, the courtyard organizes the main rooms. Several sliding doors close are hided inside the walls.

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal

When they get closed, the opened space surrounding the courtyard becomes subdivided. Main bedroom, studio and corridor could be one or several spaces.

Same thing happens on the basement, but here the courtyard isn’t a glassed one. It becomes into a storage element that divides the space into a gym and a place for leisure.


Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal
Interior Light-Single Family Housing
© Germán Cabo Arnal


Interior Light-Single Family Housing
Basement

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
Ground Floor Plan

Interior Light-Single Family Housing
First Floor Plan