L’Alzina by Jaime Prous Architects lays 23 white properties on a hill
Jaime Prous Architects design a fancy of twenty-three white properties spreading over a dense pine forest on a hillside of Caldes de Malavella, Spain. Gently sloping right down to a panorama of meadows and lakes, the location shields underneath the thick shade of the pines, whereas the structure hides between the greenery in a delicate and stunning gesture. Every dwelling kinds out of cubes in several proportions set at numerous ranges adapting to the pure terrain. The white geometrical volumes are grouped to scale back visible impression overlooking the views from the very best level of the hill.
all photos by Alejo Bagué
the design recollects Mediterranean vernacular structure
The design group at Jaime Prous Architects attracts from Mediterranean vernacular structure for the design of the L’Alzina residential complicated. All of the housing items share the identical traits and palette of colours, with soil pink, for the flooring contrasting the greenery of the situation, and pure white, for the remainder of the structure, the home windows, partitions, and ceilings, resembling the whitewashed Spanish villages. Conventional fashions of minimal homes with little decorative components excessive ceilings and enormous wall surfaces are echoed within the undertaking.
The obvious monotony of the construction is interrupted by 5 forms of housing, which adapt to the variable topography forming in two ranges, with entrances on each, preserving the unique sloping terrain and hill panorama. The construction composes of twenty-three cubes opened on three sides and supplied with a personal patio, and porch, and outfitted with a swimming pool dealing with the dense pine forest. The structure of straightforward traces and geometric rhythms pertains to the encircling panorama organically, with out imposing itself on it.
the geometric white volumes mix in with the pure environment
Jaime Prous Architects attracts from Mediterranean vernacular structure for the design of L’Alzina
the volumes of the housing complicated create a constructed panorama of various views and orientation
