Vaillo - Irigaray and Associates, SLP

Housing in the Woods

Housing in the Woods

Housing in the Woods

Vaillo + Irigaray Architects

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Zizur Mayor, Spain

TYPE
Residential › Private House Multi Unit Housing

Housing in the Woods

The project is located on the edge of a forest, between the traditional nucleus and a new development area in a small village in the Pamplona basin.

Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods

The typological singularity lies in the inclusion of "stacked" dwellings, -6 per floor on 3 levels-, apparently resolved within the section of a single-family dwelling.

This provides an image close to the traditional "house" section, in keeping with the volumetry of the dwellings in the urban nucleus.

Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods

The distortion of the scale is caused by the extrusion of the section, and is accentuated by slopes in contact with the terrain, as well as the shadow generated by the great depth of the terraces.

The topographical adaptation is resolved by means of vegetated slopes, -avoiding enclosures and walls-, imposing an overflow of the ground and visually shortening the built section.

Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods

The shell that forms the section also gestures its position with regard to the orientation, closing to the north and opening to the south.

The north façade is resolved by means of "arrow slit" windows, slit and random, seeking a rhythmic relationship with the tree trunks of the forest to which they are oriented. The south façade is resolved by means of deep running terraces.

Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods

The envelope of the shell is resolved by using a single material -facades and roof-, made of made of ribbed profiled steel. The bronze colour provides a changing image and texture depending on the sunlight, cloud cover, the season or the time of day...


Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods


Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods
Housing in the Woods

Vaillo - Irigaray and Associates, SLP
T +34 948 290054 F +34 948 290303
Vaillo - Irigaray and Associates, SLP
C. Etxesakan, 5, 31180 Zizur Mayor, Navarra, Spain