Brick House in La Eliana Sanchis Olivares

Brick House in La Eliana Sanchis Olivares

HOUSES•L'ELIANA, SPAIN

Architects: sanchis olivares

Area : 198 m²

Year : 2022

Manufacturers :  Ceramicas Mora, Cortizo

Construction Company : ATG Desarrollos

Quantity Surveyor : Julián Gordo

Construction Manager : Jaqueline Ramón

Pergola : Ernesto Pastor

Carpentry Expert : Ernesto Pastor

Windows : Juan Antonio Gil / Aluvista

Stone Supplier : Mármara piedra

Kitchen Consultant : Cocinas Llorens

City : L'Eliana

Country : Spain

We were asked to construct a single-family home on an old tennis court in the Valencia suburb of a long-

established beautiful city. It provided us with a flat area with background greenery, a large tree, and an ancient 

subterranean warehouse that had been converted into a swimming pool.

Due of the lack of communal activity in the streets of this urban model, we have developed an interior-focused 

typology to better understand how users interact with outdoor space.

The program is set up in a spine from the northern entry area to the terrace at the southern end of the property 

due to its length. The morning light enters the rooms through openings, gaps, and a courtyard on the east façade, while a flat, opaque façade on the west side seeks shade from the sun under the nearby greenery.

The house is constructed using white clay bricks as a nod to the nearby residential architecture. Each piece's 

size enables us to roughly translate the volumetric forcefulness that characterizes the project's outside 

appearance to the human scale. This assertiveness reaches its pinnacle in the vertical component that defines the "paellero," a significant aspect of Valencian social life. It is set off by a light, overhanging pergola made of 

pine slats on the southern terrace, which creates a covered outdoor area. The thickness of the enclosures, cross ventilation, and how the house responds to varied sun orientations all work together to generate a system of passive measures that enhance the climatic performance of the building.

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