This project is known as “Casa Millet” located in Torre en Conil a neighborhood in Betera. It was designed by Julio Gomez a valencian architect.

PROJECT DETAILS:

• LOCATION: Valencia, Torre en Conill
• ARCHITECT: Julio Gomez
• DESTINATION: Family housing
• DIMENSIONS SOLAR: 790M2
• DIMENSIONS HOUSE: 395,75M2
• YEAR MADE: 2002

PLANS:

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GENERAL COMPOSITION:

As we have seen this building is a familiar house located in a mountain neighborhood with lots of trees and green spaces.

Architecture is alien to to the place

Its main shape is made with cubes, which fit together forming the following shape.

camouflage

In terms of colors we can appreciate how a part of the garden is camouflaged with the surroundings with stone bricks, gray metallic railings and the pools floor is made of wood.

This building is a nod to the place. Integration is done by reinterpreting its elements. It shows sensitivity towards the place

There is a good amount of vegetation that sorrounds the house, some pines, shrubbery, olive trees and bannana trees.

One of the most important feature of the house, is its orientation. It is a house that must solve the problem of double orientation, caused because the views towards the Calderona and the Scorpion Golf Club have the NORTH orientation and therefore the spaces must also open towards the back with SOUTH orientation. Therefore, in this case also the living room and kitchen are oriented towards the two parts of the plot.

The Modern Movement breaks the compact
space, breaks the “box” and lets the space flow,
allowing:

• horizontal connections: (interior-exterior); and
• vertical connections:

The living room is located in the middle between the bedrooms and the kitchen, concentrating the latter on the EAST side of the plot, the marriage suite below and three bedrooms for the children. There are a lot of empty spaces to make it look as it is bigger.

In the ground floor you can find the garaje and a spaced room for guest and a second livingroom.

The façade is also typical of perretta solutions, with the slabs marked in white monolayer and the interior panels in glass or treated wood.

We can see that this house has a lot of big windows to allow the entrance of the sunlight during almost all the sun hours. The swimmingpool is placed in an empty gap so no trees covers it.

Sequence/repetition of shapes in space. The rhythm sets the time

The external apperance of the house plays with linear elements more specificlly with rectangles.