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Home for a Carpenter

This is a project by Silvestre Navarro Arquitectos and it is located at La Eliana, Valencia, Spain. Project's program: Single family house. There are ten images for Home for a Carpenter.

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Project details

Project name: Home for a Carpenter
Location: La Eliana, Valencia, Spain
Program: Single family house
Year: Project Year: January 2007 • Construction Start: June 2007 • Construction End: June 2009
Client: M. Serra
Project by: Silvestre Navarro Arquitectos
Team: Principal Designer: Arturo Silvestre • Collaborators: A. Marcos, J. Lucas
Others: Structure: D. Gallardo • Construction Manager/Technical Architect: P. López, C. García • Construction Companies: Conspeyan, Construcciones Granell

Project images

Designer's statement

Casa para un Carpintero (Home for a Carpenter).

The customer. Carpenter. Someone who comes to us for personal confidence. Someone who does not seek an architecture that has seen or has lived before and where he felt the happiness of the visitor (Alvaro Siza “Living a House”). A customer for whom the house is only a floor and a ceiling. This abstraction is what motivates our project.

Obviously, the processes of gestation are more complex, really are a series of trial and error, generally through exploratory drawings, simple models and complex conversations.

In this project, all these ideas are materialized in a plane of concrete. One element that wants to be all. A plane, a material that is folded upon itself to form a space, to be both a floor and a ceiling, to be a house.