Ricart House

Ricart House

Gradolí & Sanz

Ricart House
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ARCHITECTS
Gradolí & Sanz

CONSTRUCTOR
Ensecon S.l.

QUANTITY SURVEYOR
Julia Fernández Sorókina

INTERIOR DESIGN AND LIGHTING
Carmen González Úbeda

BUILT UP SURFACE AREA
250 M2

PLOT SURFACE AREA
140 M2

AUTHOR ARCHITECTS
Arturo Sanz Martínez, Carmel Gradolí Martínez

AREA
250 M²

LOCATION
Spain

CATEGORY
Houses

YEAR
2012

Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio

Text description provided by the architects.

Benimaclet used to be a farming village, an island in a sea of fields ploughed through ditches. With the growth of the city of Valencia, the island was absorbed to turn it into a residential neighbourhood, and inevitably, into an anomaly within the urban fabric. And in this condition it resists, continually more threatened by the city.

The Casa Ricart has been built on a plot in the Historic Centre of the neighbourhood, and its volition is to strengthen the typological features of the traditional courtyard house constructions, still on a smaller scale, so that they become the fulcrum of the residence.

Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio

This house is shaped around two courtyards: the first, located in the transition between the living room and kitchen – dining area, is bathed in sunlight and contains an olive tree; the second, of a more private nature, is a protected courtyard with vegetation providing shade.


Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio


Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio
Ricart House
© Mariela Apollonio


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