Casa de Tartera by Arnau estudi d’arquitectura

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Casa de Tartera by Arnau estudi d'arquitectura

Firm: Arnau estudi d’arquitectura
Client: particular
Place: C. Sant Narcís, Olot
Reference: O-2021-01
Project: Detached house
Photographs: Marc Torra

  • Eco-architecture building made up of bamboo slits with black aluminum window accents.
  • A spacious patio showing the clear glass interior of the house.
  • Angle shot of entry hall with bamboo wall claddings.
  • Inside view of entry hall with bamboo wall claddings and segmented light wood ceiling.
  • Outside shot of terrace built with segmented wooden wall.
  • Spacious kitchen area painted of white walls and light brown wooded countertop.
  • Interior shot of living room with adjacent door going to kitchen.
  • A long and narrow staircase colored with grey with segmented wood ceiling.
  • Shot of hallway and exposed beam.
  • An outside shot of Casa de Tartera.
  • Second level of Casa de Tartera with black railings and extended roof overhang.
  • Inside the bedroom shot focusing on the wide clear glass wall.
  • Dining room showcasing its wide clear glass wall with black accents.
  • an elegant and spacious backyard shot of Casa de Tartera.
  • A clear shot of a paleo river.
  • Street view near Casa De Tartera.
  • Casa de Tartera by Arnau estudi d'arquitectura
  • Front view of Casa de Tartera.
  • Outside shot of Casa De Tartera showing its several slots of black roller windows.
  • Outside shot of a small portion of Casa de Tartera.
  • A layout sketch of Casa De Tartera.

Sliding down the slope of a rocky mountain, the house moves by itself. And then it stops. It seems to have found a good enough place in the natural morphology of the terrain to fit in and to let its functional carcass rest comfortably.

The rocky conglomerate mountain that welcomes it is so hard that it imposes its own laws: the project lowers its head and submits to the topographic dogma, and the topography becomes the mould of the form and the inspiration of the concept.

Like stones piled up in a scree, each section of the house rests on the one below, and so on, until the mountain rests on top of it all. “If someone or something stirs it, I’ll come tumbling down with the others. If nothing comes near, I’ll be here, still, for days and days…”1

1 Maria Barbal, “Stone in a Landslide”, 1985, translated from Catalan by Laura McGloughlin and Paul Mitchell

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