Muka Arquitectura, SLP

Lighthouse Residence

Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas

Lighthouse Residence

MUKA Arquitectura

MANUFACTURERS
Almacenes Poveda , Cerámica La Escandella, Vitra

COLLABORATOR ARCHITECT
Ignacio Campos Alcaraz, Loreto Carmenado Vaquero, Alba Martín De Vidales Mateos, Antonio González Rodríguez, Helena Medina , Gonzalo Buenache

LEAD ARCHITECT
Moisés Royo, Jesús Bermejo

PHOTOGRAPHS
Javier Callejas

AREA
243 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Griñón, Spain

CATEGORY
Houses, Detail

Text description provided by architect.

Apart from being our refuge, a house must relate to the city and generate new encounters with the urban context in which it finds itself.

Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas

Yet, at the same time, it must express a certain enigmatic notion of what goes on behind its walls and enclosures.

This project offers a new perspective on the extent to which the activity in the house should be visible from the street and the functioning of the house shielded from the rest of its neighbors.

Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas

In the Casa Farol or Lantern House, issues surrounding how the building should be placed within the municipality and user-home interactions should develop have been resolved using a traditional material: ceramic.

While human life, in its essence or basic needs, has not changed much over recent centuries, social issues have changed substantially, shifting towards ever-increasing complexity.

Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas

The form of these new conditioning factors offers, in contrast to our complex contemporary domestic lifestyle, a simple, suspended box, with defined edges and limits, made of clay. 

It organizes the plot, the dwelling’s uses, the privacy of its users, and, above all, the light. The tension between the clay and the void allows the light to vibrate and be shaped.

Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas

As with sound in wind instruments, where the air passes through the holes to modulate melody, the red material the user through the link between man and matter, expanding the qualities of the house, which connects us to the deepest part of the human being.

Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas


Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas
Lighthouse Residence
© Javier Callejas


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Muka Arquitectura, SLP
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Muka Arquitectura, SLP
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