“Neruca” is dark grape variety from Cantabria which gives its name to the project due to its dark colour.
The house is placed on a verynarrow property, with two main façades, the east and the west, facing the adjoining volumes.
Commission : single-family housing
Architect: sukunfuku studio SLP
Location: Bezana, Cantabria . Spain
Client : private
Area : 214 m2
Site manager : David González Jorrín
Contractor : Cobo Mantecón
Photographs : Jorge Allende
This leads to design a house that opens up to itself, where the creation of semi-interior patios is used to maximize the relationship with the environment. These patios function as a filter between the house and the landscape as transition spaces.
Because the plot is very small a distribution on two floors is mandatory.
To reduce the external impact of the volume, an intermediate level is created, which allows the different volumes to be staggered.
For the external envelope, a high-quality self-ventilated brick was used, which makes the joint disappear and gives a sensation of weightlessness, where the air passes between each course through an internal chamber, and makes the façade constantly ventilate internally, reducing its maintenance. The anthracite colour was intentionally to produce strong contrast with the plinth, made in exposed concrete.
This leads to designing a house that opens up to itself, where the creation of semi-interior patios is used to maximize the relationship with the environment. These patios function as a filter between the house and the landscape, and function as transition spaces, which protect and give privacy to the different rooms. At the same time, the possibilities of opening holes to the outside increase, favouring natural lighting and increasing the solar capture capacity for the most representative spaces.
The surface of the plot requires a distribution on two floors, responding to the program of a multi-bedroom house. To reduce the external impact of the volume, instead of resorting to the usual two-level distribution, an intermediate level is created, which allows the different volumes to be staggered and softens the impact of a large, massive volume on such a narrow plot.
