The OE House is a montage. The clients wanted a double house, so they could move from one half to the other, according to their state of mind. They did not like to spend their holidays traveling; they preferred to move downstairs, and do it for real, closing the quarters above. We provided them with two well-known domestic environments?the open frame of the case study houses for the hedonistic pleasure of the warm season, topped with the interiorized existentialism of Le Corbusier?s Maison Jaoul for the windy months in la Sierra de la Mussara. We did it literally. The resulting exquisite corpse?wrapped by the most Spanish architectural prop of all: the persiana?ensures the schizophrenic differentiation of modes of habitation as much as it negotiates the impossible encounter of both types.
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Architects: Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Aixopluc

Location: Camí de Sant Antoni, 26, 43365 Alforja, Tarragona, Spain

Architects In Charge: Cristina Goberna, Urtzi Grau

Area: 330.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: José Hevia

Collaborators: Ricard Pau, Jordi Royo , Josep Maria Delmuns.

Owner Constructor: Familia OE

Constructor: Construccions Saura SL , Aluminis Ortiz ,Fusteria Florentin

Budget: 320.000

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