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asensio_mah + J.M.Aguirre Aldaz – Q House

October 9, 2009 by Nanu

q-house

Architects: asensio_mah & J.M.Aguirre Aldaz
Location: North of Spain
Project team: Diego Repiso, Jennifer Chuong, Kaizen Chen, Jon Aguirre
Construction managment: In collaboration with Satie Arquitectos S.L.
Structure: Egitur S.L
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Ricardo Loureiro

q-house 1

The house is a conscious exercise in developing an alternative domestic environment to the surrounding villas of the new suburban neighborhood. The solutions for the development so far have typically been compact villas located on abruptly leveled gardens, irrespective of the complex topographical condition of their sites. Our ambition for producing an alternative domestic atmosphere is developed by constructing a more explicit relationship between the house and garden with the existing conditions of the steep site. This organizational strategy for the house sought to register the difference in topography within the parcel by organizing a series of terraces that configure the framework for a landscape with differentiated characters. This deliberate geometric configuration affords multiple readings of the outline of the house while facilitating a rich experiential lifestyle within its volume and landscape. Specific organizational and material strategies were developed to produce different volumetric and perceptual readings that change with the different vantage points towards and within the house.

q-house 2The house is clad in dark “composite” panels that have been customized with digital fabrication techniques. These customized panels are used to articulate sections of the house volume in order to introduce legibility to the overall form. These panels offer a range of different surface consistencies and patterns to the house that reflect the sites changing light conditions in multiple ways, producing an ever changing range of texture and tones.




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Filed Under: Houses Tagged With: asensi_mah, J.M. Aguirre Aldaz, Q-house, Ricardo Loureiro, spain

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