LA BALCA
HOUSE

A house is the frame of life, of each own personal experience in life. This is even more compelling in those projects that are placed in privileged surroundings. In a vacation home, the vital experience of the space is continuous. And that obviously includes both the interior and the exterior spaces. The experience of space must give meaning to different moments of the day, but also allow the surprising moments offered by vacation days. The vacation home must admit all kind of situations, as it is occupied in a temporary and, many times, informal pace. The goal of the project for this vacation home is to create exceptional moments at every passing minute.

It is therefore fundamental to be able to have breakfast by the pool, protected from the sun, in a summer morning. The terraces play a fundamental role in the life of the building too. On the other side, the house must be lived with a certain sectorisation. That’s why the suites are like small apartments, almost allowing a fragmented use of the house if occupancy is minimal. This possibility, which is taken into account in the installation project, brings then the concepts of flexibility and multiplicity of experiences, in many cases linked with life at the outdoors.

In this project, we refer to both interiorism and exteriorism. In a vacation home, the way of living spaces fades the limit between interior and exterior, specially in our latitudes. This kind of informality, absolutely full of life, increases the experience of the house, transforming situations that would be formal some other time, like a dinner with guests or a meeting around a kitchen table with friends. Exterior features of the project, such as the grill or the swimming pool, are key elements in this way of living the house.

That Mediterranean vocation of the project is also condensed in the range of colours selected. Whitewashed walls and ecru colours build the materiality of the southern light. This neutrality in the colours palette is afterwards coated with the greenish light of the golf course or the blue sky reflected in the swimming pool. It finally allows the expressivity of the white midday light and the red explosion of the sunset.