Casa Dolmen - Alicante. España

Abstract

[EN] Located in the city of Alicante, Casa Dolmen has been planned with a clear and emphatic idea in mind, noticeable in its volumetric formalization, its distribution and its completion, with the objective of making space the most important thing. The house looks towards being seen as an essential cottage, composed by vertical elements which support a horizontal slab, which leads to an architectural space with absolute uniformity, a megalithic monument, tectonic, dolmen made with stone slabs. Recovering and adapting some of the concepts of classic architecture, the house, which is a Temple, supports itself on a podium, which is a Crepidoma and an element of transition between the natural terrain and the interior of the house. The duality that is created between the covered outdoor space, generated by an aerial and rhythmic colonnade in the main façade in the form of a loggia, and the solid and three-dimensional wide wall at the back, limits the sequence of the main rooms. Using concrete, with its formworks and its textures, a timeless and sincere, naked and convincing, expressive and monumental architecture is suggested, which is rescued, intentionally, from the fluctuation of likes.

[ES] : Ubicada en la ciudad de Alicante, la Casa Dolmen ha sido proyectada en base a una idea clara y rotunda, patente en su formalización volumétrica, su distribución y su materialización, con el objetivo de convertir el espacio en lo verdaderamente trascendente. La casa busca ser percibida como cabaña esencial, compuesta por elementos verticales que soportan una losa horizontal, lo que da lugar a un espacio arquitectónico de una uniformidad absoluta, un monumento megalítico, dolmen tectónico hecho de pétreas lajas. Recuperando y contemporaneizando algunos conceptos de la arquitectura clásica, la casa, que es Templo, se apoya sobre un pódium, que es Crepidoma y elemento de transición entre el terreno natural y el interior de la propia casa. La dualidad que se crea entre el espacio exterior cubierto, generado por una columnata aérea y rítmica en la fachada principal a modo de loggia, y el muro gordo trasero, sólido y corpóreo, delimita la secuencia de las estancias principales. A través del hormigón, de sus encofrados y de sus texturas, se propone una arquitectura intemporal y sincera, desnuda y contundente, expresiva y monumental, que se rescata, intencionadamente, de los vaivenes del gusto.