House in Gaüses / Anna & Eugeni Bach
The starting point for the project was given by the financial aspect, as it needed to be an economically viable project on a tiny budget estimated at seventy thousand euros. This factor limited both the structural possibilities and the finishes, which meant we had a very clear starting premise: we needed to work with the local industrial¬ists (if possible from the same village), and with technical solutions that they were accustomed to, as they were the traditionally adopted ones in the typical constructions of the area. This premise led us to work with load bearing walls, single-direction forgings, aluminium windows of reasonable dimensions and conventional finishes such as painted render.
On this basis, the studio-dwelling, of around ninety metres square, is divided into two well-differentiated sectors: an open-plan space that gives on to the outside via a cane porch, and a more intimate space, with two bedrooms and a small bathroom. The entire programme fitted into a perimeter of load bearing walls with a height of just over six metres.
The open-plan space contains the living room, dining room and kitchen. This space has been designed to maximise its surface over the total, so that the heart of the house, the space where most of the daily functions are carried out, is as pleasant as possible. The rooms, in contrast, are understood as basic spaces, with the minimal sufficient space for sleeping and for a small desk.
The bathroom and kitchen are also reduced to essentials. The bath¬room also integrates the space for the washing machine and the hot-water boiler; and the kitchen is a minimal bar in the living room space.
The municipality regulations mandate a sloping roof, which gives rise to a play of inclinations that recall the profile of the mountains on the horizon. These inclinations are applied to both the principal construction and to the cane porch that surrounds the north-west and south-east facades, providing a formal continuity between the principal building and the porch.
Given the high levels of sunlight that strike the roof during the summer months, its inclination is taken advantage of to generate a flow of air within a ventilated chamber in the traditional roof mode found in Barcelona’s Ensanche: above the forging a second corrugated roof is raised that generates an air chamber of around thirty centimetres. This chamber takes advantage of the inclination of the building to, through perforations in the facade, allow air to enter through the lowest part of the roof and to exit through the highest part. In this way the air chamber is heated through sunlight, rises and exits via the upper perforations, taking in more fresh air through the lower part.
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The vertical white and green bars therefore, besides giving the build¬ing a far more durable appearance, produce a changing play in the appearance of the facade according to how the sunlight strikes the cane porch and the shadow it throws on the
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