TECHNICAL DATA
ARCHITECTS: MEDIOMUNDO ARQUITECTOS. M. Pelegrín+ F. Pérez;
PROJECT: Refurbishment and extension of a Sevillian house.
PROGRAMME: Building on the existing, sustainable rehabilitation.
LOCATION: Seville
DATE: 2019-2021.
Other technical experts: Ernesto Murillo, Industrial Engineer
Technical Architect or Quantity Surveyor: Jose Antonio Lubiano.
Built area (m2): 260m2
Developer: MEDIOMUNDO arquitectos.
The concept in this project can be synthesised as “support” or “leaning”: it is built by “leaning” on the existing architecture (according to the structural lean- structural concept for this link: it permits “all possible movements, avoiding excessive stress”.
The objective has been to maintain and conserve the existing architecture, typical of a house with a courtyard “patio” in Seville, and to build an extension for a dwelling and terrace, optimising the materials and prioritising its bioclimatic and therefore sustainable functioning.
The courtyard space is extended beyond the regulations to ensure sunlight and double air circulation, refreshed by the garden of virgin vines, with lemon tree and acanthus in the flowerbed, which together with the original water quelle and the conserved well ensure the necessary coolness.
The dwelling is built as a light structure of metal pillars and slabs, lean on top of the foundations and load-bearing brick walls. All interior spaces are open, only glass and some enclosing partitions the wet areas give a privacy gradient to it. The plot perimeter walls are equipped with facilities an installations and they define the domesticity of cooking, resting, working and playing.
