Casa Máxima like a comics: each room is a story in itself

Located in Poio, Pontevedra, in an area of Galicia where the boundary between city and countryside is very blurred, Casa Máxima reproduces with its shapes and its environments the high fragmentation of the territory

From the minifundio, fragmentation as a compositional theme

In this "rurban" area in northern Spain, the phenomenon of minifundio, which is the division of agricultural land among all heirs, has generated an irregular and highly fragmented urbanization. The lands, now buildable, are small and have unusual shapes. The clients of Casa Máxima ask the architectural firm Gramática Arquitectónica for a single-level house: thus the architects propose to emphasize the fragmentation and make it the compositional theme

A mix of volumes comes together to create the house

Unlike the classic "open space" strategy for this type of architectural projects, Casa Máxima is more like a comic book: each room is a story in itself; each space has its own private channel of connection both with the sky and the outside. This way, the light is different in each room and in all areas of the house it feels a bit like being in a garden (also thanks to the flooring that continues outside). Even the exterior is divided into dedicated "rooms", starting from the rounded square near the kitchen, the rectangular one of the living room and the pool, and finally, a more internal and quiet one near the bedrooms. A spacious volume has been added near the north entrance of the lot; today it is a garage, tomorrow it could serve as an office or studio

Heaviness and lightness in contrast. The finishes

Regarding the finishes, it was decided to emphasize the contrast between heaviness and lightness: the external walls made of Galician gray granite speak of weight and horizontality; the jagged surfaces of the roofs of each volume that make up the house connect to the sky. Inside, instead, the materiality binds the ceilings to the walls, and breaks with the use of gray floors, to underline the difference between the volumes and their pure form

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