在许多村子里有这样的习俗:建房时考虑到家庭的未来,作为一个 “可完善的 “建筑,父母或祖父母留下一个结构骨架,一个围墙,希望他们的孩子或孙子将来能根据他们的需要居住在这里。我们就是这样在贝特西 “Plaça Major”(主广场)的一栋建筑的二楼发现了这所房子,它以前从未被人居住过。当第一次进入时,我们对它的比例感到惊讶,因为它非常长,25米,而宽度只有7米。在那一刻,身处一个无遮蔽的、裸露的空间的事实使这种感觉更加强烈。

There is a custom in many villages of building a house thinking of the future of the family, as a “perfectible” construction, in which parents or grandparents leave a structural skeleton, an enclosure, hoping that their children or grandchildren will inhabit it in the future according to their needs. This is how we found this house on the second floor of a building in “Plaça Major” (main square) of Betxí, that had never been inhabited before. When entering for the first time, we were surprised by its proportions, since it was very long, 25 m, with respect to the width, just 7 m. The fact of being in a diaphanous and naked space at that moment made that feeling increase.

这座房子是两个方向的过客:在东边,它的外墙落在街区的内部,平静,有很多植被,可以看到十五世纪的宫殿,而在西边,它落在大广场上,是镇上最繁忙的地方。中心有一个院子,但最初它的三个不透明的外墙阻止了光线进入房子。也许是与外面有更密切关系的可能性,使我们把目光转向了这个至今仍被填满的院子。尽管它显然是黑暗和狭窄的,但在开始项目和关注房子未来居民的需求时,正是这个院子吸引了我们的注意力。从中心点给房子提供光线的可能性成为项目战略开始的一个机会。Mar和Andrés想要一个适合他们现在的房子,但我们也在考虑未来家庭结构可能发生的变化。我们认为,在这个院子周围瞥见这些变化是很好的,因为它可以见证家庭生活的用途和习俗的转变。因此,设计策略开始于对空间和它周围的活动的宁静态度,以及它在房子里的强大存在,它将恰恰从那里,即中心,成长起来。

The house is a passer-by between two orientations: to the east, its facade falls on the inside of the block, calm, with lots of vegetation and views towards a palace of the XV century, while to the west it falls on the Plaça Major, the busiest place of the town. There is a courtyard in the center, but originally its three opaque facades prevented light from entering the house. It was perhaps the possibility of having a closer relationship with the outside that made us redirect our look towards the courtyard, so far filled. Despite its apparent darkness and narrowness, it was the courtyard that caught our attention at the time of starting the project and of attending to the needs of the future inhabitants of the house. The possibility of giving light to the house from its central point became an opportunity from which the project strategy was to begin. Mar and Andrés wanted a house for their present moment but we’re also thinking of the possible changes to the family structure in the future. We thought that it would be nice to glimpse those changes around that courtyard for it to witness the transformations in uses and customs of the family life. The design strategy began therefore as a serene approach to the space and the activity around it, to its strong presence in the house, which would grow precisely from there, the center.

我们还打算画一条从大广场到宫殿的步行路线,沿着这条路线,我们会发现不同的纹理和空间,给我们提供线索,让我们知道在哪里做饭,在哪里享受安静的阅读,在哪里停下来拿存放在壁橱里的东西,或者在哪里喝杯户外咖啡,成为一个纵向的时刻和会议的连续的旅程。因此,中央脊柱使我们能够沿整个长度赋予房屋生命,它连接着房屋最繁忙的部分和最安静的部分,它连接着房屋的每个房间,这些房间或多或少地转向它,它干净而有效地解决了通风和自然采光问题。由此产生的材料是中性的、同质的、和谐的、柔和的和照明的色调,而沿着脊柱战略性地纳入的小细节将帮助我们了解房子是如何运作的,以及如何提供必要的功能来加强空间理念。

We also intended to draw a walk from Plaça Major to the palace, along which we would find different textures and spaces that gave us clues to know where to cook, where to enjoy a quiet reading, where to stop to take things stored in closets or where to have a cup of coffee outdoors, becoming a longitudinal journey of a succession of moments and meetings. Thus, the central spine which allows us to give life to the house along its entire length connects the busiest part of the house with the quietest, it joins each room of the house, which turns more or less discretely to it, and it solves ventilation and natural lighting cleanly and effectively. The resulting materiality is neutral, homogeneous, and harmonious, in soft and lighting tones, while the small details strategically incorporated along the spine will help us to know how the house works, and how to provide the necessary feature to strengthen the spatial idea.

Architects: Piano Piano Studio
Area : 151 m²
Year : 2021
Photographs :Milena Villalba
Manufacturers : Innomader, Pavimentos Villarreal
Visual Artist : Agustín Serisuelo
Contractor : Atyco
Carpentry : Innomader
Vegetation : La Botiga de les Flors
Ceramics : Pavimentos Villarreal
City : Bechí
Country : Spain