HUTMANN HOUSE
A Coruña
We are in a fairly secluded location at the end of a quiet street in the town of Feáns, A Coruña. It is a building limit so the surroundings of the house are mainly wooded and with views of the city.
The house opens with a framed gaze towards the urban landscape of Coruña, but fundamentally towards the sun and nature. The interior-exterior boundary is resolved gradually through the hollowing out of the volume. We create a filter of walls that generate from the day area a space before the exterior and facilitates a more intimate atmosphere for the inhabitant.
The house is massive, timeless and contained. We seek a clear sense of protection for the inhabitants with a material that faces the outside and contrasts with the warm interior.
The materiality of the walls continues throughout the roof creating a volume whose texture progressively softens towards the interior with an almost textile-like concrete nuance. We find it very interesting to see the nature of the material, to show its composition as each voussoir of an arch would. This concrete has dark aggregates with green and white shades that try to generate a relationship with the natural environment, as well as to give a more human scale to the whole. Time will age the house and give it a patina similar to traditional stone houses.
Within the protection produced by this primitive architecture, we look for other basic and pleasant sensations in human beings, such as the light that falls on us from above in the daytime area. The zenithal light marks the intersection of the cardo-decuman axes of the house. This point divides the house between the different areas of privacy and receives light from all orientations. We want to create an intimate space as well as an outdoor space.