Vineyard Cottage in Fontanars, Valencia Retreat, Residential Building Images, Spanish Architecture
Vineyard Cottage in Fontanars
New Retreat Building in Eastern Spain ? design by Ramon Esteve Estudio
12 Jun 2018
Vineyard Cottage
Architect: Ramon Esteve Estudio
Location: Fontanars dels Aforins, Valencia, Spain
Vineyard Cottage

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 fores...