OAK VILLAS
SUMMARY
How do you fit 10 cows into 7 boxes? Like in the riddle, the project starts with the puzzling requirement to fit too many single houses in a too small plot. If the evasive answer “[T] [E] [N] [C] [O] [W] [S]” does not persuade the client, it will be mandatory to try another unquestionable logic: they shall fit side-by-side.
When common sense is stressed to increase profit, additional creativity is necessary: can privacy be kept between houses while opening them towards the magnificent views of Hole 3 of the Tour Course in PGA Catalonia Golf and Wellness.
Longer units, staggered to offer 3 and 4 rooms, all of them facing the golf course and the views to the Montseny range to the west. The ground floor has a typically modern open floor plan program of living, dining room and kitchen, which can be closed through large sliding doors if desired. The first floor accommodates bathrooms and three bedrooms, which enjoy privileged view over the golf course either by stepping aside or by looking through the double space of the living space in risky contortions.
In Kazakh language, client now insists that privacy is paramount. The villas, cubist dairy cows, swollen and white with black details, stand straight in front of the landscape. They finally manage to look away from each other, turning their backs on neighbours, closing their northern façades.
The volumetric game of orthogonal cloves overlapping between them and over perpendicular walls that separate the individual gardens and pools, offers pleasant unitary though fragmented elevations. Again, this is the “learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light”. Again these are the white renderings and shamelessly large stained glasses of the Resort’s most classic modern architecture.
Vegetation dress up the views from the golf course and the street: existing oaks (after which the neighbourhood takes name), rhythmic cypresses and Mediterranean shrubs dot the development. A rhythmic looks on the set, which will eventually be made up of nine villas, not ten, but now including two larger units for the owners of the cow herd.
How do you fit 10 cows into 7 boxes? Like in the riddle, the project starts with the puzzling requirement to fit too many single houses in a too small plot. If the evasive answer “[T] [E] [N] [C] [O] [W] [S]” does not persuade the client, it will be mandatory to try another unquestionable logic: they shall fit side-by-side.
When common sense is stressed to increase profit, additional creativity is necessary: can privacy be kept between houses while opening them towards the magnificent views of Hole 3 of the Tour Course in PGA Catalonia Golf and Wellness.
Longer units, staggered to offer 3 and 4 rooms, all of them facing the golf course and the views to the Montseny range to the west. The ground floor has a typically modern open floor plan program of living, dining room and kitchen, which can be closed through large sliding doors if desired. The first floor accommodates bathrooms and three bedrooms, which enjoy privileged view over the golf course either by stepping aside or by looking through the double space of the living space in risky contortions.
In Kazakh language, client now insists that privacy is paramount. The villas, cubist dairy cows, swollen and white with black details, stand straight in front of the landscape. They finally manage to look away from each other, turning their backs on neighbours, closing their northern façades.
The volumetric game of orthogonal cloves overlapping between them and over perpendicular walls that separate the individual gardens and pools, offers pleasant unitary though fragmented elevations. Again, this is the “learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light”. Again these are the white renderings and shamelessly large stained glasses of the Resort’s most classic modern architecture.
Vegetation dress up the views from the golf course and the street: existing oaks (after which the neighbourhood takes name), rhythmic cypresses and Mediterranean shrubs dot the development. A rhythmic looks on the set, which will eventually be made up of nine villas, not ten, but now including two larger units for the owners of the cow herd.
9 individual homes at L’Alzina Sector in PGAC
Site
Alzina Sector, PGAC, Caldes de Malavella (Girona)
Promoter
LuxGolf SL
Year
2017-2020
Architects
Lagula Arquitectes
Main Collaborators
Ordeic (Installations); Adrià Goula (Photgraphy))
Main Contractor
Construccions Busquets SL