Casa El Portet in Moraira, Spain
House of el Portet, Moraira Property, Alicante Residential Building, Spanish Home, Architecture
Casa El Portet in Moraira
Contemporary Spanish Residence: Home near Alicante ? design by Ramon Esteve, architect
30 Nov 2016
House of el Portet
Design: Ramon Esteve, architects
The poetics of fragmentation
Location: Moraira, eastern Spain
The House of el Portet, is located on a narrow and elongated plot in a residential area of Moraira. It has distant sea views, through a wooded area. The dimensions of the house are visually enlarged by the addition of the space of the garden, which serves as a big background stage.
Photos © Alfonso Calza
The elongated shape of the plot determines directly the outline of the house, composed of a set of prisms in different sizes, attached and set back following the main direction of the plan so that it is closed to the adjacent houses and opens to its own garden.
?Each volume slides on the next one to create a connection between interior and exterior in the interstices of each room, thus generating a richer space, with lighting and ventilation, and to mark the independence of the different spaces without losing continuity between them.? Ramón Esteve.
The smaller dimensions have only one floor and they hold the public functions of the home, such as the living room, the dining room or the kitchen, facing the garden and the pool, through a cantilevered veranda. The bigger dimensions have two floors, with private functions and nearby rooms, such...
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