When this house was designed and built the site was completely surrounded by medians except for a facade of 1.80m that communicated with the street. This situation is not so strange in the old town of Seville forced to provide some internal courtyards provide light and ventilation to the rooms of the house. The resulting building plays, because of the shape of the plot, a traditional style when the house is related to the inner courtyards while the facade of communication with the street is reduced to a minimum in both its length and its significance . One door led to a moderate extent spacious interior and a generously sized housing. This is a clear case of project rather than the full vacuum. The decision on the location and method of the courts is prior to the proposed housing. They define an orthogonal geometry built and fits the residual spaces between patios and walls. The house itself is organized into a band of 7 to 30 meters and on two levels, while auxiliary buildings supplement and define the remaining sides of the courtyards. Recently a newly opened street has changed the length of the facade that has become 30 meters. It has been decided not to change the character of the house, only widens the door and a gap is projected to illuminate isolated promptly any housing area. The house is now presented to the new street width as a post oradada reduced by four holes with a look similar to other traditional walls that enclosed interior gardens. It could be said in summary that it is a traditional style of the city of Seville that materializes with contemporary architecture, in which the building itself provides the exterior landscape that powers it.
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