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House on the Castle Mountainside by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos have designed a house on a mountainside that is overlooked by a castle in Ayora, Spain.

Project description

The building is located in a landscape of unique beauty, the result of a natural and evident growth. The mountain, topped by a castle, is covered by a blanket housing through a system of aggregation by simple juxtaposition of pieces generated fragmented target tissue that adapts to the topography.

The project proposes to integrate into the environment, respecting their strategies of adaptation to the environment and materials away from the mimesis that would lead to misleading historicism, and showing the time constructively to meet the requirements of the “new people.” In this way the house is conceived as a piece placed on the ground, joining in the gap. A piece built on the same white lime, the same primacy of the massif on the opening, which takes the edge of the site to have their holes and integrated into the fragmentation of the environment.

The indoor space is divided by the void that is the core of communication cut parallel disposition of the mountain without touching it. On the ground floor are the garage and cellar, on a volume it has two floors with four rooms. Two of them, the rooms at the intermediate level are open to the private street, the other two on the upper level overlook above the houses opposite, the Valley of Ayora. One of them, the study is opened in turn to the central double height, incorporating it into their space. Across the gap, and on the mountain, are the areas facing the garden day illuminated by light reflected on the south slope of the castle oxidized.

Architect: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Project team: Fran Silvestre | Principal in charge, María José Sáez | Principal in charge and Ángel Ruíz | Collaborator Architect

Interior Design: Alfaro Hofmann

Building Engineer: Pedro López

Contractor: Cooperativa Montemayor

Photography by Fernando Alda

The Next Generation of Smart Fortwo and Forfour

These are the next generation of Smart Fortwo and Smart Forfour. The company says that these compact vehicles have undergone some improvements in virtually all aspects to make it more comfortable for you. Now, for the first time, smart forfour is now offered with smart rear engine concept. These smart cars now offer more space, equipment, color and of course more fun when you driving around in the urban environment. The vehicle length remains unique as ever at 2.69 meters.

Each car offers drive power at 45k W/60 hp, 52 kW/71 hp, and 66 kW/90 hp while the power transmission is performed by 5-speed manual transmission or another option to use twinamic automatic dual clutch transmission.

From : Smart

At first glance, you can clearly see that smart fortwo and smartforfour are 2 vehicles from the same family. Headlamps, cooling air grille, and the iconic tridion safety cell are identical, the rear engines makes this cars agile in urban traffic. From safety point of view, this car takes Mercedes-Benz “Real Life Safety” philosophy very serious, this car performed well in frontal collisions with the S- and C-Class during the crash tests with larger and heavier vehicles.

The interior features a leitmotif concept. The dashboard and the door control panels are covered with high quality fabric in three lines which make it very pleasant to touch.

The Next Generation of Smart Fortwo and Forfour is originally posted on Tuvie - Modern Industrial Design