Architects: Ignacio Martínez Molina
Collaboration: Elias Sans
Structures: José Luis Gutiérrez López.
Location: Sant Pol de Mar. Barcelona.
Surface area: 150 m2.
Client: Private individual.
Project 2016 - Construction 2021
Single-family house in urban area in front of the sea. The starting conditions of the plot are very complex:
The client wanted to build two apartments, as a second residence, one for each son. Local regulations do not allow two houses on such a small plot, so a house has been designed to function as two overlapping apartments, open and equal, but with a common entrance.
The project aims to serve as a link in the block front of which it forms part between traditional and more contemporary architecture, which we find on both sides of the plot.
In order to achieve independence between the two apartments, the balcony on the upper floor is closed perimetrically in such a way that on the one hand it frames the sea views and on the other hand it manages to reduce the dominant position on the terrace of the lower apartment. It was also intended to generate two distinct and meaningful situations for the two apartments, which gave a certain specificity to each and made it more difficult to choose which one to keep.