Spanish architect Cadaval & Sola-Morales has completed the House in the Pyrenees in Canejan, Catalonia, Spain. This project aims to restore the values of vernacular construction of an existing old house made of dry stone, traditional techniques tectonic value of large areas. However, the inherent attributes of typical construction techniques (cohesion, massiveness, the minimum opening, interior blurred, weight) to refuse an extraordinary environment where he was: on the mountain, with views of the two different valleys faced by only two facade of the house.

This project describes about the set of interior horizontal partition which is supported by two vertical container which behave as structural elements and as a division of continuous spaces. Vertical elements produce vertical continuity in the house as a whole, and even allows to eventually turn it into two independent houses. But more than anything else on the roof of the project where the last plate is made of continuous large at the intersection of two planes that they produce an old wound that allows the view from the interior of the mountain peaks, while the roof doesn ‘t rest directly on the stone wall, making it the second Longitudinal continuous pain is created, allowing incredible views into the valley. Definition is the definition of the character of the roof of the main room of the house.

By maintaining the original structure and to intervene but the contrast is minimal, the idea is to generate new and contemporary spaces for life, respect the historic envelope. In the basement of the house, and respond to the structural weaknesses of the existing wall, a large opening in the form of a dry stone wall. permit the opening of the stunning views and natural lighting both interior living and dining room, rest rooms housed in the cage long had a feeling the rest of the old building, though they are distributed in accordance with new ways of life, a more contemporary reading of architecture. Via…

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