CASA 1603
House 1603 is a village house, with a structure of stone-bearing walls and traditional elements typical of the Baix Empordà area. This one is in the heart of the small town of Begur, characterized by its mountainous environment and its rocky beaches.
The project was born from the clients' need to connect the different levels of the house, enhance the relationship of the kitchen with its immediate exterior - turning it into the heart of the house - and finally, to expand the home with a new living room and a new room linked to the landscape.
On the ground floor, we find the day area. The different spaces that make it up follow an aggregation logic that articulates them one behind the other, without corridors, so that a concatenation of spaces is generated that allows you to cross visuals and discover the different rooms as you go.
The first floor consists of the night area together with a multipurpose space that functions as a connector as well as a living room. There are three suite-type rooms, two in the renovated part of the house, and the last one in the newly built part.
Regarding the materialization of the project, the driving idea is to distinguish the existing part from the new part, so that it is possible to understand the experiences that the building has gone through.
To solve the connectivity between levels, a concrete body emerges from inside the house, expressing itself as a cut volume that acts as a staircase. Understood as a stone mass, it dialogues with the heavy nature of the original building. The facade facing the garden, on the other hand, is solved with a traditional reinterpretation of the curtain wall that acts as an interstitial void between the new and the old. Respecting the materials of the original house and adding new elements that enhance its essence, allows us to maintain the character that defines it.
