Architecture studio Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa has completed The Cork and Wood House, a home in Spain that is finished with a raw palette of materials.
Located in the farming hamlet of Navajeda, the 175-square-metre home was designed by Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa to have a minimal impact on its rural surroundings, both visually and in terms of its construction materials.
It has a prefabricated frame of laminated wood and is clad almost entirely in cork panels that echo the colours and textures of the area's traditional stone buildings.
Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa has clad a rural Spanish house with cork blocks
"It is a small village with a strong rural character, with small houses made of stone, and at the same time with a close relationship with the natural landscape," architect Darío Cobo Calvo told Dezeen. "With the same contemporary attitude, we wanted to be careful in the way housing was inserted in the village, concerning the proportions, the position of the buildings, the size, the materials or leaving the terrain unaltered, as if the house was carefully perched on the site," Calvo continued.
"It is important to emphasise that this is a home to inhabit permanently, not a holiday house to be isolated ? there is a desire to be part of a community."
Sliding doors connect the home to nature
To "let nature in", The Cork and Wood House's single-storey gabled form is bisected by a kitchen and dining area with a double ski...