In an environment of higher multi-family buildings, this single-family dwelling has been built almost entirely on the ground floor, with a studio-office on the first floor. The initial approach is to be attached to the highest party wall to reduce its visual impact on the project, which is conceived with an ‘L’ floor plan that liberates the western half of the plot to resolve the courtyard with swimming pool.
The project is conceived as an adhesion of staggered volumes that each respond to a different use. The lowest volume corresponds to the ground floor of the dwelling and is the one that extends from the back of the plot to the street façade, the next volume that emerges set back from the first is the stairwell of smaller dimensions and on this rests the highest volume that resolves another of the conditioning factors of the programme, a study-office.
These volumes are formalised by means of grey ribbons that fold and turn around to resolve the different façades and roof eaves, which are perforated to generate interesting games with the sunlight and the trees that cross them. These volumes are conferred with large tectonic containers that seek to give a forceful response to the larger-scale environment that surrounds it. At the same time, the façades contain a recessed plane clad in wood, giving it a more pleasant and human character.