Entresitio in Record Houses

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It's April, Record Houses time again, and once again a house in Spain is among the eight works selected. Known as "#house#1.130" (a rather ungraceful moniker in my opinion), the Spanish work is by Estudio Entresitio, with partners Maria and José Maria Hurtado and César Jiménez. See the full story in Architectural Record here.

The article begins,

"The interweaving of indoor and outdoor spaces recalls the condensed landscapes of classical Chinese gardens in Suzhou: tightly framed vistas are crossed in close succession by multiple spatial events–glazed pavilions, light wells, bridges, terraces, beds of vegetation, a covered pathway angling slightly out of view."

 And for an idea about what it's all about:

"The ribbons of greenery, which extend below-grade to the light wells and run up a ramp to the roof, are just one element in the design's multidimensional knitting together of inside and out. In its first proposal to the client, the architect developed this strategy even more intensely. It was based on a honeycomb of hexagonal rooms and patios that was systematically distorted in size and shape according to programmatic requirements. Each distortion created adjustments in adjacent hexagons, following a mathematical system known as a Voronoi diagram."

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Down the Garden Path
#house#1.130 by Estudio Entresitio
Architectural Record, Record Houses, April 2014

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