On the outskirts of Baza, a small town in Andalusia, the lively French-Spanish studio VIDA architecture in collaboration with Matriz Arquitectura, is called upon to design a house for a family of three people. The house is located between the building area and the cultivated fields in a heterogeneous and not very welcoming context, characterized by anonymous buildings, empty lots and single-family houses.
The location of the lot of land suggests the prospect of planning a patio house, following the traditional architecture of the South of Spain, which seeks intimacy and domestic introspection guaranteed by the fence, without giving up direct contact with the outside world.
![VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura, RR House, Baza,Spain, 2019 VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura, RR House, Baza,Spain, 2019](/content/dam/domusweb/it/architecture/gallery/2020/08/01/una-casa-bianca-versatile-in-spagna/domus-VIDA-architecture-Casa-RR-7.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
The T-shaped plan houses the living area in its main body and divides the outdoor ground space in two: a front yard also a garage and a patio for family reunions. A double height in the living area allows the zenithal light to filter from the first floor and extends this common space to the upper floor, where a multipurpose room is located; either a study or a work area, a playroom or a guest room.
Facing the street, a large square opening breaks the introverted character of the house, offering a vantage point overlooking the city and the plain and giving the façade a domestic and playful personality.
![VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura, RR House, Baza,Spain, 2019 VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura, RR House, Baza,Spain, 2019](/content/dam/domusweb/it/architecture/gallery/2020/08/01/una-casa-bianca-versatile-in-spagna/domus-VIDA-architecture-Casa-RR-11.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
The house was built on a very tight budget with load-bearing walls of insulating bricks, lightened floors, natural plaster and a single module for the exterior joinery.
The shape of the house guarantees maximum internal flexibility to meet new family needs such as the birth of other children, the renting of a room, the growing of a bioclimatic pergola or the opportunity of working from home.
Additional structural elements are therefore provided to meet new loads; beams in the external area of the ground floor to house a pergola, load-bearing walls and beams in the courtyard of the upper level to prop up an additional floor.
![Axonometry, VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura, RR House, Baza,Spain, 2019 Axonometry, VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura, RR House, Baza,Spain, 2019](/content/dam/domusweb/it/architecture/gallery/2020/08/01/una-casa-bianca-versatile-in-spagna/domus-VIDA-architecture-Casa-RR-21.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
- Project:
- RR House
- Location:
- Baza, Spain
- Architects:
- VIDA architecture + Matriz Arquitectura
- Program:
- Single family house
- Area:
- 178 sqm
- Structural Engineering:
- MATRIZ arquitectura, Miguel A. Lucena Valverde
- Director of works:
- Jesus Serrano
- Completion:
- 2019