100JOA Row House by Vallribera Arquitectes
100JOA Row House is a modern house located in Mataró, Spain, designed in 2020 by Vallribera Arquitectes.
Description
We are hired by a family from Mataró. We easily agree on a layout with the day-use area on the ground floor: parking for one car, bathroom, living room and kitchen-dining room. Then the bedrooms are located on the first floor: the parents? room with a bathroom and dressing room, the children?s rooms with access to a terrace, plus a multi-use area for study or play. The working area (or home office) and study are on the second floor, for the whole family, opening onto another large terrace.
The factors that drove the design were the size of the plot and its surroundings. The typology is a row house with an ample width (5.25 m, specifically) but the plot is not very deep. This means that the backyard, normally one of the highest quality spaces in a house of this kind, is quite small. Plus, it opens onto the interior of the block, which is densely built. In addition to organizing the different spaces, the goal of the distribution will be to turn this disadvantage of the location into a strong point. We envision the courtyard as another room in the house, without a roof. We install a barbecue and a bench, and we rig up a simple sun protection mechanism to offer a little privacy. The next step is to situate the kitchen-dining room facing the courtyard and, as a result, the living room ends up in the interior. In response to the living roo...
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