Hutmann House

SEA Arquitectos

Short description

We are in a fairly secluded location at the end of a quiet street in the town of Feáns, A Coruña. It is a building limit so the surroundings of the house are mainly wooded and with views of the city.

The house opens up to the sun and nature and also through a framed look towards the urban landscape. We created a filter of walls that generates a space prior to the exterior and facilitates a more intimate atmosphere. The inner-outer boundary is resolved through this filter and by emptying the volume. The house is massive, timeless and contained. We seek a sense of protection with a rough material that faces the outside and contrasts with the warm interior.

The materiality of the façade continues throughout the roof creating a volume whose tex-ture progressively softens towards the interior with an almost textile-like nuance in the concrete. We find very interesting to see the nature of the material, to show its composi-tion as each voussoir of an arch would. This concrete has dark aggregates with green and white shades to generate a relationship with the environment, as well as to give a more human scale to the whole. Time will age the house giving it a patina similar to traditional stone dwellings.

Within the protection produced by such primitive architecture, we seek other pleasant sensations in human beings, such as the zenithal light that marks the intersection of the axes of the house. This point divides the house between the different areas of privacy and receives light from all orientations.

We consider intimacy to be fundamental; although open to the outside, the house faces the views in a controlled way to achieve that feeling of home. The whole house asserts itself in an atmosphere of protection, light and tranquillity.