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SINGLE FAMILY HOME

PUEBLA DE LA CALZADA, BADAJOZ

Being aware of the demographic and territorial growth of Puebla de la Calzada, and looking at the town in its northern area, the union with the town of Montijo is made through a building typological piece where, in the near future, its development will make the The union between these localities and any area that belongs to this nexus will be especially important due to its location. This premise serves as a guide for the creation of the next home.

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The building is initially located in a set of plots between dividing walls, a fact that will define and mark its morphology a lot, being a challenge to generate an unusual and, at the same time, pure facade, since its inclusion is important at the time of being formally welcomed by the rest of the neighborhood.

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Thus, the house consists of a ground floor that houses daytime uses with total permeability, where the living-dining room, kitchen, and bathrooms are crossed avoiding the glimpse of the limit between these spaces, in order to reach the backyard that is created as the end point of the tour of the house, as its openness formally connects with the rest of the house. On the upper floor, the access through slender visible stairs leads to a distributor where a large hole with overhead light allows us to connect directly with the ground floor and indirectly with the outside. Spacious and comfortable exterior bedrooms fit perfectly into a home where intense activity is expected from users, where these spaces are created in order to be used as both day and night rest spaces and, at the same time, as offices for areas of work or teaching activity.

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An intangible element that helps to organize the route of the house when experiencing it daily takes on special importance in the design: light. As soon as the house is accessed, the overhead light hole that crosses the hall on the upper floor and falls on the living room - dining room, gives kindness and clarity to a space that requires sensitivity and tranquility for its enjoyment, serving as well as midpoint on the way to the backyard, general light point for the house itself. On the other hand, the generous window in the main room fills the staircase with natural light which, together with its slenderness and elegance, guide the user towards a permeability that makes the rest of the home comfortable.

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The building-outdoor patio connection is perceived from a completely open ground floor where the living room, dining room and kitchen appear in a barrier-free complex and provides the user with visual permeability and, therefore, a sense of formal freedom inside the house. . Already in the patio, its dimensions offer great versatility for multiple acts or activities.

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In short, the property is thought from the feeling of freedom and spaciousness that are seen as necessary and mandatory due to the initial situation between medianreas from which it starts, since these side barriers are usually an impediment since they eliminate facades and reduce light to the house, an intangible element that, precisely, emerges as the organizing element of the work.

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