Casa Viva La Vega by Serrano+Baquero
Casa Viva La Vega is a brick home located in Granada, Spain, designed in 2021 by Serrano+Baquero.
Description
Horacio and Vanesa’s childhood memories are linked to the fertile plain of Granada; the murmur of the irrigation ditches, the coolness in the shade of the poplars, the materiality, and the light inside the drying sheds or the distant landscape of Sierra Nevada. In 2017, after acquiring a plot near Albolote, at the foot of the Tajo Colorao and in front of an olive grove, we were commissioned to make a house with the desire that we try to link that agricultural image of the vega that resided in their memory with their current family needs. The plot is of narrow proportions, a situation aggravated by the existence of an easement for the use of the acequiero on one of the long sides. This route is necessary for the daily maintenance of the irrigation ditch that borders one of the short sides. The balance between the wishes and memories of the agricultural character of the clients with their needs was materialized through the elements present on the site and the adjoining agricultural infrastructures. A poplar plantation is planted as a welcome and an elevated irrigation channel accompanies the house from the entrance to the pool. A large sunny orchard area is arranged next to a pergola for resting. Between these elements and in relation to them is the house, of simple but careful construction, which shows concrete and ceramic brick as the m...
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