Steyn Studio's concrete and travertine Sierra House has a mountain-shaped roof
London-based Steyn Studio built Sierra House in Madrid from concrete and travertine with a striking sawtooth roof that looks like a mountain ridge.
With a narrow, 6.8-metre-wide site and strict planning restrictions, Sierra House is Steyn Studio's reinterpretation of the typical townhouse typology of the surrounding neighbourhood.
Due to local height restrictions the roof could not peak in the middle, so it was built as two forms with a gap in the middle, which is lined with solar panels.
Sierra means both "saw" and "mountain" in Spanish, making it an appropriate name for a house with a jagged roofline.
The house is divided into two main sections, a tall and thin rough concrete volume and a larger travertine volume.
Metal mesh covers the gap between the two, and both volumes have then been pushed and pulled to create entrances and openings.
"These two contrasting yet complementary materials reference the villas locality at the edge of Madrid where the urban city ? a concrete jungle ? meets nature [in the form of] mountains and stone," said Steyn Studio.
"As a townhouse it claims its own space between exposed boarded concrete feature walls, cradling a monolithic travertine block."
Considering the narrow site, the plan has been arranged to create elongated, high spaces that feel as large as possible.
The distinct external forms of the concrete and travertine halves of the villa merge internally at the ground floor, forming in a ...
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