HOUSE BETWEEN THE PINE FOREST Story by Fran Silvestre Architects HOUSE BETWEEN THE PINE FOREST
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ElementBrandProduct Name
LightingFlos
SuppliersGANDIABLASCO
WashbasinZucchetti.
Metal work & locksmithingDekovent
FurnitureMinotti
Blake-Soft, PRINCE
ManufacturersJung HQ

Product Spec Sheet
Lighting
Washbasin
Metal work & locksmithing
Furniture
Blake-Soft, PRINCE by Minotti
Manufacturers
by Jung HQ

HOUSE BETWEEN THE PINE FOREST

Fran Silvestre Architects as Architects

Twenty-one plateaus and seven volumes tell the story of this house.


The aim of the project is to give a new and even identity to a house belonging to the same family for several generations. The original house formed by the aggregation of different interventions at different times, with different construction systems. Each of the rooms in the house describes a moment in life of this family story. Thus it was essential to maintain the structure, spaces, uses, garden and memories, presenting them in a new way.


The further layer built in the history of this place employs new volumes used for new parts of the program. In this way leisure areas are projected, containing always the scale of the building and are presented as a sort of aggregation of small parts, which draws courtyards and narrows areas, as the traditional Mediterranean architecture does.


The interior respects the intermediate levels system producing a large spatial heterogeneity in rooms with a wide variety of sizes and heights. The supporting structure of the original house is housed inside the furniture that has the same gray shade as the trunks of some of the species that inhabit the garden.


The house is woven both among the trees and among the good memories that live in this pine forest.

House between the pine forest

GANDIABLASCO as Suppliers

In 2017 Fran Silvestre repeated his much lauded and elegant approach. With the House between the pine forest constructed in Paterna (Valencia), the BLAU outdoor furniture collection is once again utilised to reinforce Fran’s purist architectural style that through its various volumes and zones respects the different periods over which the family residence was built and the different generations that lived there. Without abandoning its core character the half levels and the BLAU furniture together with the sculptural lamps in the form of a tree complete the outdoor spaces around the house.

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