The project talks about setting limits and their permeability. The first border is established between the street and the free space of the house, in Burriana, as in many municipalities the regulations establish a maximum dimension for the opaque fence and the rest of the height with a permeable materiality.
We decided, perhaps influenced by the gate that Andreu Alfaro together with Emilio Giménez designed both in the house and in the sculptor’s studio, to make this border as an opaque filter for the views and penetrable for light and air, with a constant materiality in full height.
This fine line built with aluminum profiles, which are arranged at an angle that prevents the view from the outside, draws a patio with almost the entire available surface. The heated area is limited by large-format glass carpentry, creating the feeling that the entire plot is the main space of the house. The dimension of the water pond seeks to broaden the perception of spaciousness of this space.
On the upper floor are the private rooms of the house, a volume that aims to levitate is drawn with the same materiality that gives the interior a kind of veil from which to look without being seen. The dimension of this second floor exceeds the closed space of the ground floor, generating terraces and throwing another border, in this case immaterial, the shadow.
Photo © Fernando Guerra
The accent is placed on a constructive element, the gate, understood as a lattice built with industrial elements that on this occasion defines the architecture, confers privacy and dynamically characterizes all the materials as they are pierced by the intense light.
An effect that has always captivated us, it is no coincidence that the Muslim architecture in which this element was used called it that way, masrabiya (“maravilla” in spanish, wonder). Source by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra
- Location: Burriana, Spain
- Architect: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
- Project Team: Fran Silvestre, Carlos Lucas, María Masià, Estefanía Soriano
- Collaborators: Pablo Camarasa, Ricardo Candela, Sevak Asatrián, Jose Manuel Arnao, Ángel Pérez, Andrea Baldo, Miguel Massa, Paloma Feng, Gino Brollo, Angelo Brollo, Javi Herrero, Bruno Mespulet, Paco Chinesta, Sabrina D’Amelio, Facundo Castro, Anna Alfanjarín, Laura Bueno, Toni Cremades, Uriel Tarragó
- Financial Manager: Ana de Pablo
- Administration department: Anna Llácer
- Marketing and comunication: Sara Atienza
- Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann
- Structural Engineer: Enrique Alario
- Structuralist: Windmill
- Built Area: 285 m2
- Video: Jesús Orrico
- Photographs: Fernando Guerra, Courtesy of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Photo © Fernando Guerra 
Ground Floor Plan 
First Floor Plan