2013

DOMa Architecture Awards 2013 – 1^st Prize

Jurors: Iňaki Abalos, Alberto Ferlenga, Kenneth Frampton

The characteristic features of the site and the island’s traditional building practices, though without a historicist attitude, are the recognisable project elements: the maintenance of the existing flora, the restructuring of the site’s terracing and the organization of the house with volumes which are either independent or ‘arise’ as intermediate gaps.

The building is placed on a terrace. The entrance to the house is found in the void between the volume of the house and the terrace behind it.

A longitudinal course, parallel with the gradient of the slope connects the distinct building volumes and three courtyards, each having different characteristics: a covered courtyard (in the heart of the building), a shaded one by the oak trees (close to the livingroom) and one exposed to the sun (at the end of the corridor).