Chiva, Valencia, Spain

For this house located on a plot of land with a steep slope, in the Barranco de Soterraña, a natural watercourse near Valencia, Juan Marco Arquitectos developed an idea for an industrialized, fragmented, and unplugged house, integrating passive systems and self-generation of energy.

In this half-slope location, Industrialized House rNrH, designed to be manufactured with industrialized components in three months, and installed in a few days, sits on a light metallic structure that allows habitability in this complex topography, without manipulating it, without taming it.

Eight modules of limited dimensions, due to the characteristics of their transport, organize the sequence of the domestic spaces, interior, and exterior, of this modular industrialized house. 

After the execution of a structure in situ, these pieces are accommodated elevated from the ground, maintaining the runoff regime of the soil, and allowing future extensions, by bringing other modules or, simply, by colonizing parts of this hybrid structural framework.

The house explores this fragmentation, consistent with the proposed construction systems, generating a daily and intense relationship with nature, despite its small size, and without having to resort to large glass surfaces or other devices that are incompatible with the climate and budget. 

Importance was placed on the intermediate spaces generated, which complement the strict interior surfaces and collaborate with the thermal control of the environments. 

Thus, all parts of the house in this sequence of spaces, have direct access to the outside and participate in the games of the proposed structure in the landscape.

Project: Industrialized House rNrH
Architects: Juan Marco Arquitectos
Lead Architect: Juan Marco Marco
Design Team: Guillermo Gómez, Sheila Pérez, Alvaro Arroyo, and Zuzanna Cieslewicz
General Contractor: Miguel Monteagudo Cuevas
Client: Private
Photographers: Diego Opazo