PITCH’ S HOUSE DESIGN BY INAQUI CARNICERO
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PITCH’ S HOUSE DESIGN BY INAQUI CARNICERO
The design of these two semi – detached houses is adressed in a non
– conventional manner. From the beginning, the two units were conceived as a
single Project, and although the program for both residences is identical, the
layout is asymmetrical. The finished design answers to the client’ s needs, as
well as offers the possibility of being transformed into a single house,
envisioning a wider range of plausible scenarios in the future.
The house is located in Los Penascales – ‘’rocky area ‘’ in Spanish
– on a slope with many outcrops and oriented to the South. The building,
however, does not relate to them, but rather turns its back to the immediate
surroundings, interacting with the distant Pardo forest and with Madrid’ s
skyline. While the design denies the abrupt topography of the site and the
immediate context, the structure delicately leans on the existing rocks with
large horizontal planet hat defines the footprintof the building.
Once this datm has been established, the house is organized in two
independent units. Car parking and other services are located underneath, and
the living areas are put above in a single volüme. Relating to the ‘’ footprint
plane ’’ the size, shape, and placement of this hermetic, horizontal prism
provides fort he rest of the program: bedrooms, the main bathroom, study rooms,
and a little toilet. In this piano nobile, where the Daily life goes on, the
floor is covered with White calcareous stone. A unique by window located 1,40
meters fromthe floor trims the skyline of the landscape and uniformly
illuminates the concrete ceiling.
Resting against the hillside, the hanging concrete box serves as a
canopy to protect the ground floor from the sun, while stimulating views into
the horizon. The horizontal void created practically spans the whole building,
bringing natural light into the first floor and allowing it to enter the ground
floor diagonally though the central double – height space. This as well as
other double – height volumes put in relation the two rather independent levels.
Between these segregated worlds, the entrance appears around a huge
rock and through a slightly hidden stair. Inside, objects are clustered and
related to one another in multiple ways. In the ground floor, the furniture is
reduced to a single element with various functions: storage, kitchen counter,
sitting area, and entrance windbreak, in the first floor, all the wardrobes are
concentrated in one single strip that is attached to the facade, improving the
thermal behavoir of the building, and therefore reducing its energy
consumption. This buiding
hosts two dwelling units, but lacks the typical scale of a house. By
abstracting traditional dwelling elements, the visitor is mislead and his
attention redirected to the specificity of the enviroment.
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IÑAQUI CARNICERO
Active in
both the academic field and a professional practice, Iñaqui Carnicero has been
an associate professor of design at the School of Architecture, Polytechnic
University of Madrid since 2000. A year after graduating Carnicero earned his
first commission through a competition for the construction of a university
building in Madrid, which was accompanied by his participation in the Venice
Architecture Biennale, 2000.
Carnicero has
won several competitions and completed many projects, including CEU University,
social housing, a high school, the restoration of an Arab tower, a district
attorney’s office in Madrid’s City of Justice, a cultural multi-use center in a
former slaughterhouse of Madrid, and the Pitch´s house. He is cofounder of the
architecture platform “Symmetries,” relating roman and contemporary procedures.
His Ph.D.
dissertation focuses on Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi’s discoveries in Rome
regarding the perception of size in architecture.
PUBLICATIONS
( SELECTED )
“Ragusa´s
Secret,” COAM magazine nº 359, Kahn y Venturi (April 2010)
“A New Scale
from Rome,” 10 tesis en curso. AAVV. Editorial Mairea (2011)
“Symmetries
manifesto” www.symmetries.es
AWARDS,
GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIP ( SELECTED )
Rome Prize,
Spanish Academy in Rome (2007)
Design Vanguard
Award, Architectural Record (2011)
Selected
Emerging Architecture Awards, Architectural Review (2011)
Hauser Award
(2012)
Final stage,
FAD Awards (2012)
EXHIBITIONS
AND PRESENTATIONS ( SELECTED )
RIBA
exhibition International Emerging Architects, London (2011)
Architecture
week in Prague International exhibition (2011)
International
2012 Emerging Future, GA gallery, Japan (2012)
