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Casa Americana

Jordi Costa — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:59:24 +0000

Architects: Macías Peredo Photography: César Béjar Construction Period: 2016-2018 Location: Guadalajara, Mexico

The walls of Casa Americana are stacked with bricks, which is also to comply with some local regulations. At the same time, because the brick structure makes the house layered, it will not appear single and without details. Macías Peredo Studio has always made good use of greenery in their designs, allowing the house to contrast in tones and add vitality to the space.

The tall wall surrounds the house and ensures the privacy of the occupants without blocking the light source. The movable glass door and window design can not only introduce light into the room better, but also ensure good ventilation of the house. While protecting the house, the occupant can open or close it according to personal needs.

Description by Gina.

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Cabin in Rone

Jordi Costa — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:40:25 +0000

Architects: Sanden+Hodnekvam Photography: Sanden+Hodnekvam Construction Period: 2016-2018 Location: Steinkjer, Norway

A small building with a small program. A place to make food. A place to eat. A place to enjoy the view. A place to sleep. A fireplace. A bathroom. And some storage.

The small cabin is located at Rones, 150km north of Trondheim. The site is steep and rough with a view of the fjord. The cabin has a compact footprint which adapts to the landscape and preserves the site and its vegetation.

The main floor is a concrete construction with three different levels adapting to the terrain. The concrete base, and the big wooden windows in front, support the second floor; a triangular shaped volume of cross laminated timber wrapped in black roofing felt. The interior is characterized by the raw concrete walls, the polished concrete floor, the wooden windows and the 2.nd store all made in Norwegian pine. The furnishing is made out of Norwegian birch. Gutter and other outdoor details are made in untreated copper, and will darken with time. The cabin has a sheltering atmosphere with its protective back wall in concrete and its open glass facade facing the fjord.

Text provided by the architect.

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Cal Jordi & Anna

Jordi Costa — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:32:49 +0000

Architects: Hiha Studio Photography: Pol Viladoms Construction Period: 2016-2018 Location: Lleida, Spain

The project consisted of updating and adapting an existing building to the present, to new materials, to new ways of life.

The existing building is the result of the sum of two houses between a rammed earth party walls. They are buildings that respond to the typology in La Plana de Lleida area featuring a rectangular plot that is around 5 meters wide and 15‐30 meters in length.

The main approach of the project was to empty the existing building in a selective way in order to attain the project aims and provide for the functional needs of the clients.

This void allowed for the elimination of existing elements and for a reduction in the amount of surface requiring remodeling and thereby provides economic savings for the client. This decrease in remodeling area allowed us to provide the functional needs required by customers almost automatically. New visuals and relationships were also generated between the new rooms, both vertically and horizontally. The decision to place the empty spaces in contact with the north and south facades allowed us to obtain a greater contact surface with the exterior and to generate a more compact building. This reduced depth allowed us to extend the light from the facade to the center of the house.

Our efforts for this project were concentrated on giving the new spaces a domestic feel in the face of its monumentality. The new inner spaces generated by our selective vacuums are where we placed the spaces with a more “public” appeal. These spaces are visual connectors even though they are set at different levels. In them, everyday activities are carried out whereas the rooms of a more private nature are located around these rooms.

The building was developed on three levels, on the ground floor we have the “Roman Fauces” entrance, in tribute to the large entrance halls of the farmhouses and the traditional houses in the town. Day activities are concentrated on the first floor, with the living room, kitchen and dining room linked to the inner terrace and bathroom and the accompanying room. The second floor is dedicated to the night area where the rooms and the corresponding bathrooms are concentrated.

The material essence of housing was achieved by fundamentally stripping and removing all ornaments and finishes prior to remodeling and returning the building to its original appearance. Our aim was to

recover the essence of this type of houses, where the material, the texture and the color are given additional value and incorporated within the new interior language. The rammed earth walls take on a prominent technical role in this new language since these walls allow us to regulate the natural moisture, temperature and acoustics of the interior of the house.

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