This modern cottage, located in Fontanars dels Alforins, Spain, was designed in 2016 by Ramon Esteve Estudio.

Description by Ramon Esteve Estudio
Cottage in Fontanars is located in the municipality of Fontanars, on the outskirts of the village surrounded by large acreages. The project seeks the maximum environmental and landscape integration because of its border location between a zone of pine forests and the grapevine fields, being diluted practically in the vegetation. To this contributes the decision to develop the entire program in a single plant, in addition to the material chosen, which provides shade consistent with the place.
?This countryside retreat generated from the idea of a standard traditional rural house with its pitched roof, applying a new concept of space afterwards.? GENERATING FORMS
The geometry consists in mapping the line edge that defines the traditional house to extrude it after, forming an envelope under which will be developed throughout the project. That line-concept, turned into a long concrete shell that organizes the dwellings´ program and is crossed transversely by the rooms materialized as pine wood containers.
The project seeks the maximum integration landscape and environment, due to the location of the border between an area of pine forest and the fields.
?The house is composed by two monolithic structures forming two large blocks made of different materials, the first one made of white concrete, both insid...