Casa rufo, campo baeza

ALBERTO CAMPO BAEZA, ARCHITECT RUFO HOUSE, TOLEDO (SPAIN) 2010

The brief was to build a house on a hilltop outside of the city of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and offers interesting views ofthe distant horizon, reaching the Gredos Mountains to the northeast. The site measures 60 x 40 m and has a 10-meter slope. At the highest point, we established a longitudinal podium, 6 meters wide and3 meters high, that extends from side to side the entire length of the site. All of the house’s functions are developed inside of this long box, the length of concrete creating a long horizontalplatform up high, as if it were a jetty that underlines the landscape with tremendous force. This long concrete box is perforated and cut into, conveniently creating objects and voids to appropriatelyaccommodate the requested functions (courtyard + covered courtyard, kitchen, living room-dining room-hall, bedroom, courtyard + courtyard, bedroom, garage, swimming pool, bedroom, courtyard). In thisdistribution the living-dining room opens to the garden while the bedrooms face onto courtyards open to the sky and garden, affording them the necessary privacy. The stairway connecting the upper floor issituated in the area behind the living-dining room. On top of the podium and aligned with it, a canopy with ten concrete columns with a square section support a simple flat roof, as if it were atable with ten legs. Under this roof, behind the columns, is a delicate glass box. To protect the views of the house from the back, a simple row of poplars were planted. Once again, the theme of the Cabinon top of the Cave. Once again, the theme of a tectonic Architecture over a stereotomic Architecture.

Se trata de levantar una casa en lo alto de una loma, a las afueras de Toledo. La loma estáorientada a suroeste y tiene unas vistas muy interesantes de horizonte lejano, al noroeste, que alcanzan hasta las montañas de Gredos. La parcela tiene unas dimensiones de 60x40 y un desnivel de unos...