Concha House
Berja, Spain
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Located between party walls, this single-story house is conceived as a transition between the narrow access road and spacious interior orchard.
Behind a nearly blind masonry wall that faces the street, a longitudinal front yard is placed. This yard allows the lighting of the rooms and provides privacy since the openings are not directly on the front facade. The courtyard provides a filter between the outer space of the street and the inside of the house. It provides natural light to the house and acts as an extension of the adjacent rooms.
The interior of the house is configured in two longitudinal strips which are parallel to the street and the two main courtyards. The first strip adjacent to the longitudinal front yard houses the private and service programs, such as the bedrooms, kitchen, and toilets, while the second one houses the public, social and communal programs. This strip opens to the large backyard that gives access to the orchard.
This space is delimited by a bank-planter run, concerning the rest of the inner courtyard, which is configured as a possible future area of garden or plantation. The treatment of both courtyards, longitudinal access patio, and main patio, will be semi-hard, in granite cobblestone and compacted earth with areas for small or moderate planting. Unlike these, the garden or unoccupied plot space is expected to have a future configuration as a space arranged for the possible planting of fruit trees and vegetation of small, medium, and large size.
A metal lattice covers the courtyards and acts as a support for climbing plants that will provide shade to the house. These yards reproduce the grapevine crops characteristic of the town.
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