Ferranvizoso architecture

Residential Architecture

Houses, villas and apartments, read through the housing projects: patios, skylights, porches and terraces as the elements that make a home.

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The projects below are the heritage case studies this category grows from.

Section drawing of the house with the diagonal guideline highlighted

Housing · Residential Architecture

2 Patios House

Diagonal and square: a single-family terraced house in Sant Lluís, Menorca, with two patios and one cantilevered bow window bringing light and southern views into a luminous interior.

What it teaches: The design had two main aims: a luminous interior, and the spectacular southern views down the street.

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Section drawing of the house with sunlight falling through the two skylights

Housing · Residential Architecture

2 Skylight House

Two discreet skylights bring light and air to the dark central rooms of an untouched vernacular house, transforming it without changing its traditional exterior.

What it teaches: This intervention had to make compatible the maximum respect towards the character of this, until then, untouched vernacular construction and the satisfaction of the current needs (technical and functional) that any contemporary residence has.

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Floor plan of the house showing the four pavilions and porches

Housing · Residential Architecture

4 Porches 4 Skylights House

Open and close: a single-family house in Port d’Addaia, Menorca, closed to the outside and open to the inside, with four triangular porches that turn the whole house into one great porch.

What it teaches: The clients asked for a house closed to the outside, but open from the inside.

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Section drawing of the new storey with the skylights highlighted

Housing · Residential Architecture

4 Skylights 1 Terrace House

Together and alone: a new storey in a terraced housing block in Mercadal, Menorca, with many skylights, few materials and a corner terrace with pleasant views, built for a mother and her child above her parents’ home.

What it teaches: This new home for a recently divorced woman and her child was built on top of her parents’ residence. The pleasant views from the corner terrace, and the use of many skylights and very few materials (white plaster on walls, continuous cement as pavement and pine wood on windows and doors), generated a clear, luminous and comfortable interior ready to welcome the new dreams of their two young inhabitants.

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