Colien House

Colien House

Álvaro Siza Vieira

Colien House
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COLABORADOR
Álvaro Fonseca

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Jorge Nunes da Silva

CONSTRUCTION
Construccions Arcadi Pla SA

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Alexandre Martins

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
Raquel Fernandes

ENGINEERING
GOP, Gabinete de Obras e Projectos Lda

LOCAL ARCHITECTS
Aresta, a+u, SLP (Manel Somoza - Manel González, arquitectos)

HVAC
Raul Bessa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Pedro Cardigo

PROJECT YEAR
2011 – 2015

CONSTRUCTION YEAR
2016 - 2023

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Barcelona, Spain

CATEGORY
Houses

Colien House
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Colien House
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Colien House
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Text description provided by architects.

The slope related to the access street and the willingness to act just on the essentials, regarding the topography and site vegetation, guided the program organization of Colien House into a compact volume that staged descends the terrain slope.

The project provides the garage and access plan on the street level, deploying three united levels through three lower plans in articulation by a vertical communication box (stairs and elevator):

Colien House
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Colien House
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the -1 plan with kitchen, living and dining room, -2 plan with bedrooms and the -3 plan with the study room, bathroom/toilet and laundry room, at the same level as it is presents the swimming pool with a visual water strip.

A concrete plan that covers the garden exit all the distance since the kitchen sets the relation with the street – a platform that allows the access of individuals and cars and releases the garden from possible winding and steep ramps while respecting the existing vegetation.

Colien House
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Colien House
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Colien House
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Each house level offers a terrace that amplifies the interior space while relishing the landscape's natural beauty and the 180º view from East to West.

Ultimately, architecture answers the intention of disrupting the surroundings the minimum possible and of enjoying the landscape without construction changes.

The forceful, emphatic and precise volume sets itself like the plot while counterpointing with exposed concrete.

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