Villa in Torrelodones

Its shape defends the North, and it closes as it was leaving a hole in the plot that is precisely the rock that fills it. I wanted to create a dialogue similar to the shell with its valve. The game between the stone that emerges from the plot filling the emptiness of what was built as an open shell. Su forma defiende el Norte cerrándose, como si dejase una oquedad en la parcela que es precisamente la gran roca que la llena. Quería establecer un diálogo parecido al de la concha con su valva. El juego entre la piedra que surge de la parcela llenando el vacío de lo construido como una concha abierta. In the site map, where this game appears, we drew the line North-South. Torrelodones is very cold; in Winter, west wind is hefty. The house is closed to the west and opened to the South, with the stable shape of the circle. The closed circle of the southern horizon and the open diameter of the southern one. The elementary form of a horseshoe, closed to the adverse climate of the North, with the possibility of taking energy from the South. After much time thinking about it and trying infinite variations, we found the shape that all houses should have. En el plano de situación donde aparece este juego se dibujó claramente la línea Norte-Sur: Torrelodones es muy frío, en invierno sopla mucho viento poniente de la sierra. La casa se cierra a poniente y se abre al Sur, con una forma tan estable como el círculo. El círculo cerrado del horizonte austral y el diámetro abierto del meridional. La elemental forma de herradura de caballo, cerrada al clima adverso de la zona Norte, con la posibilidad de tomar energía del Sur. Al cabo de mucho tiempo, dando vueltas a unas cosas y otras tras infinitas variaciones, se encuentra la forma que parece debieran tener todas las casas. The shape has its manifestation in the construction with brick color bands that are raised by courses. They keep the idea of the elevation of the house, from the ground to the sky through the horizontal plane.