Eight Inscribed Houses and three courtyards in Gran Canaria, Spain

July 28, 2010 Category: House, Residential

Eight Inscribed Houses and three courtyards that located in Gran Canaria, Spain, was designed by Romera Y Ruiz Arquitectos formulates a dialogue to formalize the found tensions: between lines and thickness (those offered by the mismatch of alignments and party walls); between inner glances and outer tangencies. Thus, a vertical sequence of broken planes is drawn up, where light slides and shadows become more expressive throughout the day. They turn the only façade into a changing game. Simple origami, fold, unfold, that.

The inscribed houses, with their small boundaries, are thought and built as a microcosm. The confinements of the irregular and broken limits of party walls, far from being perceived as a negative quality, heightened forms and bodies to the firm. Controlled spaces where container and contained elements establish dialogues which create a sequence of border spaces. These articulate a route that gently discovers three courtyards that filter natural light, dyeing it with shades of blue, ochre and green. Almost monochrome atmospheres.

The diagonal relations between the common spaces frame cuts and fragments of the sky and are naturally ventilated and brushed with natural light.

Every element plays a significant role. From the street to the deepest stay, one circulates along vestibules, courtyards, corridors, footbridges and slots of light.

Eight Inscribed Houses and three courtyards Design by Romera Y Ruiz Arquitectos