Casa Unifamiliar MJ, La Cerdera House, Modern Spanish Building, Architecture Images
MJ House in La Cerdera, in the province of Lleida
Modern Home in Catalonia, Northern Spain – design by Alventosa Morell Arquitectes
21 Jan 2020
Casa Unifamiliar MJ
Design: Alventosa Morell Arquitectes
Location: La Cerdera, Lleida, Catalonia, North Spain – near Andorra
Casa Unifamiliar MJ

photo © Eugeni Pons
The order of the project is based on the construction of a single family house in the residential area of La Cerdera, Lleida. In this residential area predominates big surface plots (minimum 2000 sqm) with a composition of Ground Floor+1. Despite the big dimensions of the constructions, the design of the existing houses doesn’t allow them to get profit of the total surface of the garden.
photos © Eugeni Pons
The aim of our proposal is to design at the ground floor level a house which permit us to extend over the plot and, at the same time, domesticate the exterior space by a sequence of roofs that are distributed from side to side of the garden.

photos © Eugeni Pons
To be able to reach these objectives, the different wings of the project create a central courtyard which let the proposal be organized around it.

photos © Eugeni Pons
These autonomous wings are solved by zinc roofs and big glass facades helping us to delimitate the interior courtyard and to face the principal gardens of the plot (South garden and North garden). At the same time, we generate ...