Despite its modesty, designing a house for a specific client is, probably, the most demanding and fascinating challenge for an architect.

© Javier Bravo Jabato

Architects: Gaztelu Jerez Arquitectos

Location: 09451 Caleruega, Burgos, Spain

Architect In Charge: Enrique Jerez Abajo, Koldo Fdez

Area: 625.0 sqm

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Javier Bravo Jabato

Construction: Construcciones Cumabe SL

Furniture: Richana, Burgos (Vitra, Ethnicraft)

Rigger: Domingo del Cura

Structure: Rubiera Burgos, �lvaro Hernando (Ing.)

Budget: 304.929 ?

© Javier Bravo Jabato
Despite its modesty, designing a house for a specific client is, probably, the most demanding and fascinating challenge for an architect.

© Javier Bravo Jabato

One of the objects of this job, which went on for 5 years, was to design 2 similar houses for 2 brothers, avoiding simple repetition and symmetry. The other one was to opt for an architecture simultaneously contemporary, related to vernacular and which carried out the strict (? and we think that excessive) urban regulations from this small rural towns. Finally, the project would be built by the small local company run by these brothers, so some of the solutions were both new and stimulating.

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