Casa Unifamiliar MJ, La Cerdera House, Modern Spanish Building, Architecture Images

MJ House in La Cerdera, in the province of Lleida

Modern Home in Catalonia, Northern Spain – design by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes

21 Jan 2020

Casa Unifamiliar MJ, Lleida

Design: Alventosa Morell Arquitectes

Location: La Cerdera, Lleida, Catalonia, North Spain – near Andorra

Casa Unifamiliar MJ

photo © Eugeni Pons

The order of the project is based on the construction of a single family house in the residential area of La Cerdera, Lleida. In this residential area predominates big surface plots (minimum 2000 sqm) with a composition of Ground Floor+1. Despite the big dimensions of the constructions, the design of the existing houses doesn’t allow them to get profit of the total surface of the garden.

photos © Eugeni Pons

The aim of our proposal is to design at the ground floor level a house which permit us to extend over the plot and, at the same time, domesticate the exterior space by a sequence of roofs that are distributed from side to side of the garden.

photos © Eugeni Pons

To be able to reach these objectives, the different wings of the project create a central courtyard which let the proposal be organized around it.

photos © Eugeni Pons

These autonomous wings are solved by zinc roofs and big glass facades helping us to delimitate the interior courtyard and to face the principal gardens of the plot (South garden and North garden). At the same time, we generate a sequence of transparencies that links all the interior activity with almost the whole exterior garden.

photos © Eugeni Pons

The organization in different wings also allows us to differentiate the two sleeping areas that the clients asked for (family area – grandparent’s area). These two autonomous spaces interact with each other through the interior courtyard and through the living area that connect them (kitchen-dining room-living room).

photo © Eugeni Pons

The materialization of the project has been carried out by a dry construction with metallic trusses, a sandwich panel with a considerable thermal performance and zinc finishing in slate colour (roof and facade from the height of the window’s lintel to the top). In the other hand, for the facade’s plinth and the pavement, a natural Quartzite stone has been used. It is a rocky finishing that helps us to generate a feeling of solidity to the proposal.

photo © Adrià Goula

This construction system has allowed us to reduce the execution period to 10 months and, at the same time, to link the zinc roof and part of the facade to the traditional constructions of the residential area. Most of them with a traditional slate stone roof.

photo © Adrià Goula

MJ House in the province of Lleida – Building Information

Design: Alventosa Morell Arquitectes

Col.laboradors: Marga Bernadó, Arquitecte tècnic.
Joan Ma. Subias, Arquitecte tècnic.
Lluís Trilla, Interiorista.
Masala consultors, càlcul estructures.

Promotor: Predisib S.L.
Constructor: Predisib S.L.
Inici construcció: 10/2017
Final construcció: 08/2018

photos © Eugeni Pons

Fotografia: Adrià Goula / Eugeni Pons

MJ House in La Cerdera, in the province of Lleida images / information received 210120

Location: La Cerdera, the province of Lleida, Spain

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