Port de la Selva is a concrete seafront residence located in Girona, Spain, designed in 2021 by Marià Castelló, Architecture.

Description
Port de la Selva is a small coastal settlement in the northernmost part of the Costa Brava. The intervention is located on a plot of land in the ?La Tamariua? urbanization on the north slope of Puig Gros, a small promontory that surrounds and protects the town?s port.
The topography presents a pronounced slope towards the sea with abundant outcrops of ?pòrfit?, a dark and very hard rock that characterizes the geology of the volcanic origin of the place. The climatic conditions are typical of the Mediterranean climate, although sometimes they become extreme, with strong winds from the north (Tramuntana) that frequently hit the coast. The tension between the optimal solar orientation and the deep panoramic views compresses the program of a house for a family with four children on two levels: the lower one embedded in the bedrock and the upper one, fragmented into two volumes. This combination of strategies (embedding in the ground and volumetric division) makes it possible to reduce the apparent volume of the intervention and improve its integration into the landscape, as well as generate different patios that provide warmth, lighting, and ventilation at strategic points.
The interstices between the rocky ?pòrfit? substrate and the architecture become the most lyrical moments of the proposal and w...