Rambla Climate-House

Rambla Climate-House 

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

ARCHITECTS
Andrés Jaque / Office For Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa Del Castillo

STONEWORK
Syc Piedra Natural

MANUFACTURERS
Areniscas Crema, Mirete Mallas Metálicas

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Andrés Jaque, Miguel Mesa Del Castillo

QUANTITY SURVEY
Francisco De Asís Pérez Martínez

TEAM
Roberto González García, Nieves Calvo López, Joan Fernández Linares, Ana Fernández Martínez, Marina Fernández Ramos, David Gil Delgado, Marta Jarabo Devesa, Jesús Meseguer Cortés, Laura Mora Vitoria, Paola Pabón,

ESTRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Qube Ingeniería (Iago González Quelle)

EDAPHOLOGY CONSULTANT
María Martínez Mena

ECOLOGY CONSULTANT
Paz Parrondo Celdrán

QUALITY SURVEY
Ingeolab

PLANTING CONSULTANCY
Viveros Muzalé (Rubén Vives)

TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY
Fulgencio Mª Coll Coll

GEOTECHNICAL REPORT
Forte Ingeniería

EARTH MOVEMENT
Excavaciones Elton

WOODWORK
Carpintería Tornel

FOUNDATIONS
Hacienda Corvera

DRONES OPERATOR
Juan José Rojo Albadalejo

MASONERY
Construcciones Vifransa S.l.

THERMAL ISOLATION
Aispomur

INTERIOR PARTITIONS
Escayolas Dani

WINDOW FRAMES
Hijos De Pascual Baño

STRUCTURE
Cerrajería Alberto Sobrino

GLASSWORK
Cristalería Marín

THERMAL CURTAINS
Acom. Agrocomponentes

MECHANICAL SYSTEMS AND SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTION
Fontanería Diego

ELECTRICITY
Anzora Instalaciones

CLIMATE MANAGEMENT
Iceberg Climatización S.l.

SENSING SYSTEM
Netro

CIVIL CONSTRUCTION
Gestchaft

DEVELOPERS
Victoria Sánchez Muñoz, Antonio Mesa Del Castillo Clavel

PAINTING
Prymur

PHOTOGRAPHS
José Hevia

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Molina de Segura, Spain

CATEGORY
Houses, Sustainability & Green Desig

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

Text description provided by architect.

Since the 1980s, vast stretches of land in the formerly-rural county of Molina de egura (Murcia) have been exploited to create suburbs.

The result of this exploitation is a flattening of the land’s topographies and the destruction of its territorial system of ravines (ramblas).

Ramblas constitute a fabric of veins carved by seasonal rainfall in the dry steppe landscape. In them, humidity accumulates, and biodiversity flourishes.

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia
Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

They constitute corridors of freshness, carbon fixation, and ecological entanglement that play a crucial role in the climatic and earthy stability of Molina de Segura’s ecosystems.

The Rambla Climate-House works as a climatic and ecological device. 

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia
Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

It is part of a series of associative initiatives, developed at the scale of independent citizens, to contribute to reparations for the environmental and climate damage caused by over urbanization in Molina de Segura.

The Rambla Climate-House collects pooled rainfall from its roofs and greywater from its showers and sinks to spray onto the Rambla's remains and regenerate their former ecologic and climatic constitution.

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia
Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

Humidity and conductivity Netro-sensors activate an automatized meteorology that escapes the control of humans to reach the requirements of the reparation process.

The house is organized around this elliptical section of rambla, as an observatory in alliance to this reconstructed landscape and as a sequence of interconnected spaces of different widths.

Following the reparation of the hydrothermal conditions of the rambla, glimpses of its former more-than-human life have rapidly re-emerged after a one-year period.

Now, brachypodiums, myrtles, mastic trees, fan palms, oleanders, and fire trees grow in the elliptical section. Insects, birds, and lagomorphs find shelter in it.

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia
Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

Thermally, the construction of the house tests unorthodox ways to maximize energy efficiency.

A marble bench around the elliptical section allows residents to cool off by allowing direct contact to the house’s thermal inertia.

A coil exposed to the sun, crowning the elliptic section, provides passive hot water during the entire year.

The Rambla Climate-House is the result of a collaboration between architects Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation and Miguel Mesa del Castillo; the edaphologist María Martínez Mena; and the ecologists Paz Parrondo Celdrán and Rubén Vives.

Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia
Rambla Climate-House
© José Hevia

All are committed to contributing to the growing grassroots movement claiming climate reparation in Murcia. Since its completion, the house has become a demonstrative device.

Gatherings with neighbors and members of the extended Molina de Segura community are organized to share insights and experiences in a collective effort to reground Molina de Segura’s urbanisms.


Rambla Climate-House
Plan - Basement
Rambla Climate-House
Plan - Roof
Rambla Climate-House
Plan - Ground floor