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Eternal house. Made of earth, lime, cork and wood . Oropesa

Funcionable arquitectura . photos: © ImagenSubliminal – Miguel de Guzmán+Rocio Romero

One of the two owners, descendant of a family of potters and ceramists who preserved that tradition in the construction stage, proposed building their house with the work material of their ancestors: clay and craft work. The location of the site next to the family ceramic workshop facilitated the production of the adobes, updated in modern blocks of compressed earth or BTC. The land would be extracted from the usual location available in the area, located in the nearby municipalities of Puente del Arzobispo and Alcolea de Tajo. They themselves would produce the blocks to build their walls. Continue reading Funcionable arquitectura

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Patchwork House . Oropesa

Funcionable arquitectura | Julio César Moreno . photos: © Imagen Subliminal (Miguel de Guzmán + Rocío Romero)

In this work of transformation, several buildings of different typologies had to be integrated into a single one for housing use. As the main strategy, a double-height space of the old cereal mill has been used to unite the different parts, placing in it the main living area, taking advantage of the fact that it occupies a central position in the complex. The different initial areas were five: a segregated part of another house, the mill, some stables, a haystack, and a high floor above the mill, and the house as a barn or attic, in the form of a single double-height nave. Continue reading Funcionable arquitectura