Gallery Home / Antonia Cabezón – Pabla Amigo

Gallery Home / Antonia Cabezón – Pabla Amigo


Textual content description supplied by the architects. When strolling via a forest, we will glimpse paths between the bushes that aren’t actually paths. Generally clearings open up on their sides, different occasions they proceed with out obvious finish, getting misplaced within the thickets. Casa Galería proposes a means of inhabiting and strolling as a continuation of the forest through which it’s situated. A path marked by vertical parts with clearings – or areas to be in – hooked up to this route.



The fee consisted of a trip house, appropriate for each summer season and winter, with numerous pure mild, built-in widespread areas for household coexistence, and two impartial wings for the bedrooms.



To deal with the good unevenness of the terrain, a central hall is proposed on the entry degree from which circulations department upwards with the bedrooms and downwards with the widespread areas. This association in intermediate ranges allowed for a terraced quantity that was not invasive within the panorama or for the neighbors who’re additional down the hill. As well as, it generated an inside with double top and completely different balcony areas which can be integrated and provides higher spatial amplitude.



The construction of the home consists of a succession of pillars and beams of nationwide Oregon pine, the inside cladding of white pine, and the outside cladding of fiber-cement. The distinction between the supplies highlights the construction that was left uncovered, marking the rhythm of the development.



To find the home, the benefit was taken of the house left by the elimination of six pine bushes that had been susceptible to falling because of their dimension and the slope of the terrain. Because of the acidity of the soil underneath these bushes, the native forest couldn’t develop on the positioning, leaving a naked terrain. Due to this fact, no native bushes wanted to be eliminated for the set up of the home.


