CADAQUÉS

An old master said that you can find architecture where the difficulty is. The specific conditions of a tiny plot, cliffhanging facing the bay of Cadaqués, are inseparable from the final result of the project.

The local regulations resolve in a generic way the dilemma of the size of the openings, facade material, maximum volume and geometry of the roof. So, we had to understand as opportunities the radical conditions derived from size, the access from the upper floor, the facade geometry regulations, the materiality, even the obligatory parking space, mutated in a terrace to provide a new experience of the landscape.

Set this, there is room to play with the overlapping of programmatic needs, occupying the landings of a staircase. There is also the work on the relative position of the glazing in the width of the facade, and even some hooligan solutions in the conventional materiality, probably encouraged by the liberality of the clients.

The building is barely visible from the distance, I must say.