Padilla Nicás Arquitectos

Holiday House in Vilapol

Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia

Holiday House in Vilapol

Padilla Nicás Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Francisco José Padilla, Juan Manuel Nicás Caballero

MEASUREMENT AND BUDGET
Jaime Santos García-moreno

COLABORATOR ARCHITECT
Alfonso López Silva

CONSTRUCTION
Ineo Construcciones Y Reformas, Construcciones Amaro

FACILITIES
Acix Ingeniería

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT WORK
Aroa Mayo

MEASUREMENTS AND BUDGET
Jaime Santos García-moreno

STRUCTURE
Idi Ingenieros

PHOTOGRAPHS
José Hevia

AREA
225 m²

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Vilapol, Spain

CATEGORY
Houses

Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia

Text description provided by architect.

If something definitive the clients said to us was their desire to look towards the sea. The house is placed in a little town near the coast of Lugo, raised and oriented towards the landscape opened to the sea.

Arriving Vilapol means leaving back the town of Xove to go through a dense eucalyptus forest until appearing in this peaceful and lonely little town, elevated from the surrounding lush landscape with the sea in its horizon. The feeling is to be alone facing all that.

Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia
Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia

The house is placed in a high triangular plot, on the edge of the only street in which every house is relied on. This geometry ends configuring its dynamic floor plan and subsequent volume, that reinforce the will of the house to orient itself to the landscape. 

Its position in the plot leaves a rear space that is used mainly as a parking, and a front one opposite the big porch in which the house is felt over.

Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia
Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia

The more protected side of the house is the one where you gain access to the house. Over time, the trees in the northeast corner will end up protecting the space that the occasional pedestrians could use.

Being a vacation house, the open layout proposed facilitates the communication between rooms, placing the main ones in the front of the house that faces the sea. Around that covered space is where the relaxed vacational life will happen.

All the rooms fall over it, and by its external stairs and the corresponding internal one, both floors are communicated, creating an easy and funny circular path.

Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia
Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia
Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia

The bedrooms, placed in the top floor, enjoy outstanding views over the green landscape until reaching the sea.' The bedrooms, placed in the top floor, enjoy outstanding views over the green landscape until reaching the sea.

The bathrooms and kitchen are covered with the traditional multi color tiles. The access doors to the bedrooms are told apart by using a green color.

The bright colors of the interiors are used with the idea of cheering up the life in an environment that usually has the lead colored of the Galician skies.

Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia
Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia
Holiday House in Vilapol
© Jose Hevia

In opposition, the external grayish blue color is associated with those skies trying to integrate the house with its context.

The scale and layout of the openings try to integrate with the near constructions, without sacrificing the strong desire to open its most exposed facade towards the landscape.

Holiday House in Vilapol
Elevation 1
Holiday House in Vilapol
Site Plan

With this work we tried to make a cheerful and relaxed vacation home with the best understanding possible with the surroundings, and felt over towards the lush and peaceful coast landscape.


Holiday House in Vilapol
Elevation 1
Holiday House in Vilapol
Elevation 2


Holiday House in Vilapol
Ground Floor Plan
Holiday House in Vilapol
Upper Floor Plan


Holiday House in Vilapol
Drawing 6
Holiday House in Vilapol
Drawing 6

Padilla Nicás Arquitectos
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