Lozoya House
BGAA / Burgos - Garrido Associated Architects
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
YEAR
2010
LOCATION
Lozoya, Spain
TYPE
Residential › Private House
This awesome plot has great views over the Lozoya valley and the Guadarrama peaks.
It has some drawbacks, the more than twenty meters difference in level between the highest and lowest points and the rugged topography full of huge granite bowls.
As a house for a single musician, the requirements are simple, only two bedrooms are required but the owner needs a musical working studio and a big living room.
The project is like a ocean liner, that despite the suroundings, lies on a piece of concrete recessed against the granite of the mountain, containing an indoor pool, small dressing rooms and two powerful pilars in reinforced concrete.
On this structure is built another made in steel, with large cantilevers, which supports the tray on which the house is mounted on one single floor. The large cantilevers are terraces that extend each one of the rooms to the exterior.
The house flies artificially over the ground, building a horizontal surface that did not exist in this plot and leaving the natural slope practically virgin with its existing vegetation.
