Manuel Cerdá Pérez / Julio Vila Liante

IGS House - Massalfassar - Valencia

Una casa con patio para vivir, una casa para vivir con patio para vivir.
Estar fuera sin salir a ninguna parte, entrar al patio.

Se plantea este proyecto para una persona sola cuyo deseo es disfrutar de una vivienda actual, sin concesiones a las modas al uso. “Soy médico, y si venís a mí no me decís cómo os debo de curar. Haced mi casa como creáis. Los arquitectos sois vosotros. Quiero vivir en una casa del siglo XXI”.

Manuel Cerdá Pérez / Julio Vila Liante

Fotos: Joan Roig

CASA IGS - Massalfassar - 1994/95
Arquitectos: Manuel Cerdá Pérez / Julio Vila Liante
Aparejador: Miguel Monteagudo Cuevas
Promotor: Isabel Gimeno Soro
Constructor: Tapisa S.A.
Situación: C/ del Forn s/n

Memoria original en inglés::

This project was built for only a single person, whose wish was to enjoy a contemporary home, without bindings to way of use. “I’m a doctor, and if you come to see me, you won’t tell me how to heal you. You create my house how you imagine. You are the architects. I just want to live in a house of the 21st century.”

An emptied cube is the basic concept of this project. In the inside of the original rock, the spatial concept is formed by creating the subtracted space of it. Like a lived-in geode, playing with the geometries and the spaces, an organism with an interesting spatial sequence is planted.

From the mystic and smart double space of the access, you discover the empty centre of the double altitude. Horizontal and vertical streaming and flooded of light. A light staircase leads to the walkway that units the upper spaces and gives access to the terrace. Here the architectural body is grabbed again.

As a solid and precious block without reduction, the house doesn’t doubt to talk about its origins. No allusions, no illusions. Nearly none. It hides itself and looks for its essence in the relations of the inner and outer spaces, reflected in the oasis of the patio. It is an Arabian house.