House in the Air
House in the Air
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
PROJECT ARCHITECT
Fran Silvestre, Estefania Soriano
COLLABORATING ARCHITECTS
Pablo Camarasa, Jose Manuel Arnao, Andrea Baldo, Paloma Feng, Javi Herrero, Gino Brollo, Angelo Brollo, Anna Alfanjarín, Laura Bueno, Toni Cremades, David Cirocchi, Gabriela Schinzel, Nuria Doménech, Andrea Raga, Olga Martín, Víctor González, Pepe Llop, Alberto Bianch, Lucía Domingo, Alejandro Pascual, Pablo Simò
INTERIOR DESIGNER
Alfaro Hofmann
FINANCIAL MANAGER
Ana de Pablo
STRUCTURE
Estructuras Singulares
CONSTRUCTOR
Atlanterra Proyectos
ARCHITECTURE TEAM
María Masià, Ricardo Candela, Sevak Asatrián, Paco Chinesta
MARKETING AND MEDIA
Sara Atienza
FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT
Valeria Fernandini
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Julián Garcia
DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION
Sandra Mazcuñán
BUSINESS DEVELOPER CCG Y MÉXICO
José María Ibañez
MARKETING
Kateryna Spuziak
PHOTOGRAPHER
Fernando Guerra
AREA
400 m²
YEAR
2024
LOCATION
Tarifa, Spain
CATEGORY
Houses
Zahara de los Atunes is one of those places where the ordinary becomes exceptional. Every day has its sunrise and sunset, but the way this happens in this particular place is hard to describe.
With this starting point, the architecture is arranged almost like a mechanism that allows us to protect ourselves while capturing the spectacle that the surroundings offer us.
Since the terrain is sloped, the element appears as an architectural piece deposited in its environment.
The place is prepared with a sort of base materialized in the gray tones of the stones found in the surroundings.
In fact, the name Zahara comes from the Arabic "Sahara," which could be translated as "rocky place."
This base allows the house to be positioned at the necessary elevation to ensure views and the sunset over the sheet of water against the Atlantic.
At the back, there is a tranquil patio to retreat to when the Tarifa wind is intense.
This patio opens onto rooms with complementary uses to the main house. As if it were left to rest on this pedestal, the upper floor is divided into three spaces.
The central area is the daytime space, completely open between the northwest, where the magical sunset happens, and the southeast, with no structural elements interfering between this space and the landscape.
On both sides are the nighttime areas with the same orientation. This arrangement balances the structure and provides privacy to the main bedroom.
A simple architecture embedded in a place where the sensitive observer can delight in all the colors.
