Cruïlles 2 is a stone residence located in Cruïlles, Spain, designed in 2020 by Majoral · Tissino.

Description
We are asked to enlarge a house we had refurbished a few years earlier. The clients had bought the adjacent house, a construction completely different from the refurbished house. The brief is also quite unusual as the first house already fulfils all habitability requirements (kitchen, dining, living, rooms…) The new functional programme is a broader living room, a studio open to a courtyard and a new room.
The new house, built with stone bearing walls and a gable roof, stands at the junction of two consolidated streets of the historic urban core. The house consists of a vaulted semi buried ground floor and a first floor with several rooms. The proposal links both houses through the ground floor, moving the existing bathroom and creating a connection that allows us to reach the large vaulted hall. A concrete topography allows us to reach the level of the new entrance and at the same time reach different platforms for the different areas of the broad living room: The large living room, the chimney area and the cocktail area. This topography is broadened diagonally to produce a ‘prospectic’ cone, expressed in the vault’s unique finish, opening towards the stair cluster allowing us to access the upper floor.
To increase the hall’s natural light, originally lit only by two small windows facing north, a large window has be...