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CUMBRES DE CALICANTO

TOPOGRAFY AND SITE.
Given the altitude of the allotment that it places in the part superior of one hillock, from where all the valley of Xiva is looked at, in this project it is attempted on the one hand to create the locus from the same architectural piece, leaning in the composition and of another to organize the inside of the architectural piece that closes up of the side of west, in spite of being protected for the peaks of the neighbouring hillocks and that it opens up of the side of the east that it gives the magnificent views of the valley. People spy from Cullera until Sagunt. Of here the “of terrace” expression of the elevations towards the east and sit-in towards west and north wind.

PROGRAM
This project of isolated single-family housing, developed and executed, replies in the order of the property that it requires that this has solved for a family of a marriage and two sons; housing of three spacious bedrooms. This demand him solved with a ground floor and semi basement devoted to zone by day and a first floor in zone by night.

CONCEPT.
An open emptiness lets enter the outer light that it irradiates towards all directions. The back of the piece protects the winds and the outer views. The topographic contour curves are reproduced by the sinuosity of the line of limit of the terraces. A jet of light penetrates and the eyes are dazzled with the wonderful views of the valley, the irrigated region and the azure sea.

MATERIALIZATION.
The access is carried out, from the street, through an outside staircase that brings us until a porch that acts as filter for us until the main entrance that introduces us towards the inside. Once this has been crossed, people access directly in a hall that a stair which it leads and a corridor to the 1ª floor that it places a toilet and the wide kitchen accommodates. Corridor, stair and the living-canteen room they find themselves in a same space -differentiated by the diverse altitudes. The living room scatters towards the terrace. The living-canteen room it resigns in two environments: one of canteen near the meridian window and the zone of being shaped like a space to double altitude that reaches specially and visual until the cover. Communicated organically with this space the kitchen is found. Downpour of natural light. An interior courtyard shaping shed. In the courtyard there is a metallic stair of steps of glass that drives us until the upper floor and to the second terrace of this upper floor.

The basement is devoted to garage and premises of storing utensils of do-it-yourself. There is also a zone of intendancies to make the laundry, which will be spread to a small courtyard -hidden- that has exit through a door placed on the septentrional ornament. While avoiding to be seen from the requirement, as they require the ordinances. The access outer to the garage is carried out by one big futile placed on the facade meridian that it connects with a paved way or paved that it carries to the door of vehicles of the allotment.

The used materials are the normal ones of nowadays, concrete, bricks face side silicates calcareous, glass, iron of outlined, lacquer aluminium etc. The handrails of mullions of half t, traverses of maritime shape wires.