Spanish studio Balzar Arquitectos has added a copper-toned household home named La Casa de los Olivos to an olive grove in Valencia, Spain.
Aiming to mix into its web site within the city of Quesa, the lengthy and low-lying residence has been completed with a red-hued lime mortar that mimics the encompassing soil.
Balzar Arquitectos additionally preserved as a lot of the present planting as potential by designing the home with a linear type that matches inside a grid of timber.
“The panorama was already fantastic because it was, so when it got here to the intervention, we wished to respect this place, attempting to maintain as many olive timber as potential,” mentioned studio co-founder Laura Moreno Albuixech.
“We wished to create a dialogue between the pure and the substitute, between the olive timber and the home,” Moreno Albuizech advised Dezeen.
Constructed with a metal body, the copper-toned house is nestled into the gaps of the eight-by-eight-metre grid of timber. Inside, rooms are organized throughout a single flooring.
“The olive timber are organized in an ideal grid of eight by eight metres and this was a key issue within the geometry of the home,” mentioned Moreno Albuixech.
“Each the home and the swimming pool benefit from the free areas left within the grid of olive timber and insert themselves between them.”
Working down the centre of a gravelled courtyard is a protracted swimming pool. It extends in the direction of the principle constructing, curving to satisfy a porch that’s lined by an overhang perforated with a round skylight.
A big glass door separates this porch from the open residing house, which extends right into a eating space and kitchen with green-toned cabinets and brass surfaces.
“The muted inexperienced color of the leaves of the olive timber was used for the woodwork and the gold of the solar at sundown was reinterpreted within the kitchen with pure brass,” mentioned Moreno Albuixech.
All through the house, crimson partitions and accents mimic the soil-informed color of the outside, together with terracotta-toned flooring and Iranian travertine marble surfaces that function within the bogs and inside pool.
“The selection of supplies and colors was clear from the start,” mentioned Moreno Albuixech. “Each the purchasers and we have been on the lookout for colors that revered the chromatic vary that the plot already had once we visited it for the primary time.”
Two ensuite bedrooms department off from the principle residing house and open onto non-public patios that body views of the encompassing olive timber.
“The house integrates with the agricultural setting by means of patios that embrace the present olive timber and a longitudinal platform that reinforces the linear perspective in the direction of the horizon,” mentioned the studio.
“By way of the patios, the olive timber and the extensive terrain grow to be a part of the dwelling and lives of the individuals.”
Different Spanish properties just lately featured on Dezeen embody a slim residence designed for indoor and out of doors residing and a home unfold throughout six pavilions organized round a courtyard.
The pictures is by David Zarzoso.
