HUTMANN HOUSE

Architects: SEA Arquitectos Year: 2022

Location: A Coruña – Spain

Lead Architect: Carlos Graña

Team: Guillermo Pomar

Website: www.arqsea.com

Instagram: @sea_arquitectos

Photographer: Hector Santos

Instagram: @hector_santosdiez

Status: Built

Categories: City, Concrete, Medium, Spain

 

 


In a fairly isolated environment, we were looking for a landscape integration that does not want to blend in with its surroundings but to pass harmoniously unnoticed.

 

The house is a massive and forceful object, almost monumental. The intention is to create a clear sense of protection to the inhabitants with a material that faces the outside and contrasts the warm interior. The materiality of the walls continues throughout the roof creating an almost archaic form whose texture gradually softens through the voids we create in the concrete with an almost textile hue but which, like the exterior, shows its composition as would each voussoir of an arch. The black concrete has dark aggregates with green and white shades that try to generate a relationship with the natural environment as well as give a scale to the whole.

 

The day space wants to be protected from the outside, but we also want it to provide certain sensations of the natural state of the human being of a nature with which we have been living for about 2.5 million years, therefore, we propose the zenithal sunlight as a natural relationship with the human being.

 

The interior-exterior boundary is gradually resolved through the hollowing out of an artificial stone that we created to house the best possible life inside it.