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López & Rivera

Intergenerational Social Housing . Esporles

Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos . photos: © José Hevia

The proposal gives continuity to the series of houses with gabled roofs that are added in descending sequence along the streets perpendicular to the Esporles stream. The building is made up of two clearly differentiated volumes that frame a large tree-lined interior patio and indicate the deep access from the street next to an existing public garden. The main volume parallel to Ca l’Onclo Street houses the 18 homes distributed on the ground floor and two upper floors; all the homes are through and face southeast-northwest. With a marked agricultural character, the second volume houses the complete auxiliary program: access, vertical communications core, technical and concierge rooms, multipurpose community room, dining room and community kitchen. Continue reading López & Rivera

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López Rivera

Passive House . Arteaga

López Rivera Arquitectos . photos: © José Hevia

The house is accommodated along the Bo Orueta road following its concave shape to the south and adapting to the gentle slope of the terrain without hardly modifying or touching it. Large Markina limestone stones perched on ballast filled pits raise the entire house off the ground to allow the soil and air under the house to pass intact. Continue reading López Rivera