House X / Bojaus Arquitectura

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The result is a wall of large isolated blocks that remain exposed inside and outside the house. Against an average of 50 years of useful life, a house is built to last generations, a house deeply rooted in the landscape like the granite boulders and the trees that surround it.Entirely built from concrete made on-site with local aggregates, the house proposes permanence and useful life as alternatives to a sustainability often summarized in immediate images. The 50 cm thick walls are handcrafted using layers of 60 cm in height that integrate insulation between the inner and outer leaves.Text description provided by the architects.The X house arises from the conflict between a beautiful landscape and the will to inhabit it. This conflict is faced with a determined intention to construct a new element "of" the landscape, not "in" the landscape. Like the ancient fortresses or the houses of Monsanto in Portugal, the house aspires to integrate as radically as possible with the environment that embraces it.The rocky terrain on which the house sits is characterized by gentle topography and the imposing presence of a centenary oak surrounded by holm oaks and cork oaks that grow among large granite boulders. Among all these stony and vegetative elements and learning from the Ugalde house by Coderch, the house manages to find its place with a layout in the shape of an X that accommodates the program in the rugged landscape, while framing the views of those features from its interior.