Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam

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Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam

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  • Completion year: 2022
  • Gross Built up Area: 225m2
  • Project Location: Alicante
  • Country: Spain
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Antonio Campos y Adrián Segura, estudioBamBam
  • Contractors: Mohamed Bouda
  • Photo Credits: David Frutos
  • Video Credits: Pablo Granero
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Excerpt: Casa 1927, a traditional house characterized by the arch setting and terrazzo flooring, conserved and restored by Estudio BamBam with interior architectural interventions keeping few of the elements intact and using the blending approach of the modern and vernacular traditions including the factor of climate response in the built environment.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] The project intervenes in a single-family home between dividing walls. A traditional typology in the villages of Segura’s orchard, with an antiquity of almost one hundred years, rehabilitates it in an integral way. With a rectangular floor plan distributed in different rooms and a gabled sloping roof made of flat tiles, with structural walls of limestone masonry and a south-facing patio.

This family home was built by the owner’s grandparents. She was born there and now, after many years uninhabited, she returns with much love and enthusiasm to give it a new life with her family. An important reason for the project to be generated from respect for the history of the house, and the conservation and enhancement of its traces, as a common thread.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

This concept of conservation coexists in the project with the need to adapt the house to current lifestyles. For this, the construction elements that are still valid have been reused and several identity elements of the original house have been restored; at the same time that a new relationship with light, with the patio and between the different rooms, and new construction and energy technologies have been introduced.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

Identity Elements

The arch, the pavement, the wooden structure of the ceiling, the ashlar foundations, the interior wood carpentry and the traditional blinds are the elements that transfer the historical identity of the building to the present.

The arch and the pavement become the main elements of this house, using them as a guide to establishing the new spatial, material and colour strategies, extracting the essence of the original house.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

The restored arch was before, and now, the welcoming architectural element of the house, which welcomes us at the entrance in a central and main position. Since its conservation, the space has been completely reformed and ordered, today open and additionally connected with a new arch, establishing an interesting language between 1927 and 2022. Giving even more importance to the Arch, other curved elements colonise the house: from the hall and access to the children’s bedroom, to the patio with that rhythm of exterior cabinets and elements to support the vegetation.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos
Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

The original pavement of the house is a beautiful 20x20x3cm terrazzo with a characteristic reddish triangle, whose alternating arrangement generates the two different patterns that we found on the first visit. For complete energy rehabilitation, it was necessary to lift all the original pavement. The intervention was carried out with great subtlety in order to recover and reuse the more than 300 pieces that were in good condition and reintegrate them into the house respecting the original patterns. Thus, they have been reincorporated in the form of a mosaic carpet at the foot of both sides of the Arch, access and dining room, and in the trace that the central structural wall left when opening the new arch, here with a third pattern that we introduce.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© Estudio BamBam

On the ceiling, part of the supporting wooden structure of the cane and plaster ceiling has been preserved and has been incorporated as an element of the interior space. The nature of the masonry wall without the exterior cladding has been exposed, marking the location of the old chamber below the roof, in the dividing wall between the ceiling and the sloping roof.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

The interior and entrance wooden doors have been recovered, conserving the great height of the ceiling. The blinds on the windows on the main facade have been replaced, because they are still valid elements of solar control and privacy, in addition to the warmth and domestic character they provide. On the facade, the foundation ashlars of the structural wall have been discovered.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

Space Proposal.

The spatial proposal creates a large space for common relations, connecting the kitchen, dining room and access inside the house; and connecting all this with the patio outside. This relationship generates a continuous space, but not homogeneous: each area has particular spatial conditions and can be partially independent with the use of a large separating curtain that runs along the arcade in the central wall. A curtain that brings theatricality, intimacy, subtlety, flexibility, dynamism and colour to the house, and coexists enhancing the beauty of the two main arches.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

Material Proposal.

Materially, we have worked around the colour range of the original rescued pavement, which has a very characteristic vermilion colour, on a background of light and earth tones. In this way, the space has been intervened, with white walls and sand pavement; introducing colour into certain key elements: the curtain, the front tiling of the kitchen, the hall, the blinds and the pavement itself. The proposal is completed by the dark wood in the restored carpentry and the vegetation in the interior, patio and facade.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

Energy Rehabilitation and Grant

The energy behavior of the house also combines traditional passive strategies with current ones. Connecting and opening up the living spaces, in addition to improving the spatiality and use of the house, generates a large cross-ventilated volume between the street on the north and the patio on the south. The pergola, colonised by the old vine, provides sun protection in summer, allowing the passage of sunlight in winter with the fall of the leaf. In addition, the presence of this vegetation establishes a pleasant transition between the dining room kitchen and the patio, providing climatic balance at each time of the year.

Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos
Casa 1927 | Estudio BamBam
© David Frutos

In addition to these traditional passive energy efficiency strategies, the house has incorporated current elements and technologies, which have given it a B-A energy rating. Insulation throughout the envelope, high-efficiency carpentry and glass, solar control elements, high-efficiency climate installations and solar thermal installation for DHW. This has made it possible to obtain a €25,000 subsidy from the PREE program for energy rehabilitation, achieving savings in consumption of 75.13 kWh/m2 per year and a reduction in harmful emissions to the environment of 13.29 kg CO2/m2 per year.

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