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Description

The customer: a Carpenter - someone who approached the studio for personal confidence, someone who does not seek an architecture that has seen or has lived before and where he felt the happiness of the visitor (Álvaro Siza - Living a House). A customer for whom the house is only a floor and a ceiling. This abstraction is what motivated this project by Silvestre Navarro Arquitectos. Obviously, the processes of gestation are more complex, resumed in a series of trials and errors, conducted generally through exploratory drawings, simple models and complex conversations.

In this project, all these ideas were materialized in a plane of concrete: one element that wants to be all, a plane, a material that is folded upon itself to form a space, to be both a floor and a ceiling, to become a house.

Biography

Arturo Silvestre was born in 1966 and studied architecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia, in Spain. In 1995 he founded the Estudio Silvestre Navarro which has developed most of his work in Valencia. In recent years the firm has focused its work on participation in architectural competitions and has been recognized with some awards and exposed in exhibitions and publications. Currently Arturo shares the studio with J. Lucas, F. Orti and S. Vicente.