PEREA-BOROBIO HOUSE (2014-2016)
Location.  Calle Fray Francisco de Pareja, 27, 41007, Sevilla.
Architects. Canales & Lombardero (Francisco González de Canales y Nuria Álvarez Lombardero)
Collaborating architect. Francisco González de Canales L.O.
Collaborators. Encarnación Márquez, Yonatan Buchhandler, Hao Wen Lim
Quantity Surveyor. Felipe Fernández de Bobadilla
Client.  Perea-Borobio Family

A retired couple of doctors decides to use their life savings to build a new house for them and their visiting sons and grandsons now living abroad. The clients want the house to be thought for now and for generations to come, eventually inheriting the property. In search of flexibility and future change, the design invests in setting a clear spatial system around which adaptation can occur. This system is designed to organize not only service areas and installations but also spatial relations, structure, lighting, and energy performance. In particular, the design deploys a system of brick cavity walls that articulate all relevant house spatial relations, while fluid inhabitation and variability are expected in between them.  The walls are made of two interconnected layers of solid fire brick, a leftover from a cancelled local construction, acting both as a structural support for the house and as a 35 cm thick building envelope of highly efficient energetic performance. In the public areas of the house, brick walls, left unclad, as well as the concrete slabs, better absorb energy flows and are slightly shifted. As such, they partially expose while not totally disclosing spaces behind. Displacements, perforations, and sectional connections create a dense web of spatial relations that ground everyday life experiences. Material and light qualities of the house’s core elements are further explored through simulation and models. Finally, a double-height concrete portico highlights the client’s will to be seen.