OKTADE HOUSE
Garrido Studio
ARCHITECTS
Garrido Studio
LEAD ARCHITECT
Juanjo Garrido Balaguer
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sonia Sabnani
AREA
369 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Valencia, Spain
CATEGORY
Houses
English description provided by the architects.
In a flat and peaceful plot in Godella, just minutes from Valencia, a residence emerges that adopts horizontality as its defining language.
The project is composed through pure geometries, bold planes, and generous cantilevers that create a massive yet serene architecture, deeply attuned to the Mediterranean climate.
This interplay of overlapping volumes, advancing surfaces, and shifting shadows gives the house a strong but balanced presence that integrates naturally into its surroundings.
The home is strategically oriented to maximise daylight in the main living areas —the living room, dining room, kitchen, and garden— creating open and luminous spaces that extend outward.
In contrast, the four suites are positioned in a more private and secluded area, designed to ensure calm and intimacy.
Large windows running throughout the house dissolve the boundaries between inside and outside, allowing Mediterranean light to enter freely and enabling each space to breathe directly toward the garden.
This openness is complemented by an earthy, textured façade whose warm, rugged finish highlights the materiality of the architecture and transforms each cantilever into a sculptural gesture in dialogue with the Valencian landscape.
From the very first step, the entrance sets the tone. A spacious foyer is organised around a prominent staircase that brings verticality and acts as a central feature.
Above it, two skylights let soft, diffuse light descend into the space, revealing from within the depth of the large exterior cantilever.
Advancing through the vestibule, a framed window at the far end opens a direct visual axis towards the garden, announcing the continuous relationship between architecture and landscape that defines the entire project.
Inside, the residence offers generous, warm, and tranquil spaces conceived for wellbeing. Material choices —light woods, continuous surfaces, and soft tones— reinforce a sense of calm that complements the building's strong exterior geometry.
On the rooftops, 70 m² of terraces provide intimate corners to enjoy the Mediterranean climate, while the garden, organised around a wide swimming pool, becomes the social heart of the home.
With direct access from the kitchen and living room, this outdoor area naturally hosts family life and daily interaction with the exterior.
Overall, the house is conceived as a contemporary refuge that conveys stability, peace, and balance. Its bold volumes, deep shadows, and cross-ventilation create an inviting atmosphere that does not seek to dominate, but rather to accompany.
It is an architecture that embraces light, opens to the garden, and offers a serene place to live slowly and calmly, in continuous harmony with the climate and the Mediterranean way of life.
