CEB HOUSE

This project is a volumetric exercise, an architecture that emerges from the practical, aesthetic and true needs of this family. Due to the peculiar location of the land - inside an existing house inhabited by the parents of this family - the main challenge was to achieve a balance between the common and the intimate.

The purity of form derives from respecting its surroundings and generating privacy. A series of internal voids allow the walls to maintain their raw essence with no other accent than the openings through which light and air from outside are allowed to pass through.

In an effort to respect the existing trees, the intermediate gap between this and the pre-existing house remains a common but dividing space, a finish that blurs the views between them and allows large windows to be used without exposing its inhabitants.

The use of few materials — partition, concrete and wood — responds to creating timeless spaces that withstand the multitude of changes required by a family. However, as Lina Bo Bardi said, all conceived architecture suffers when transformed into matter and in this case the transformation was total, since the owners finally decided to change all the materials and although the volume was respected, the essence of the project changed completely.