17-03-2015

Balint House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Valencia, Spain,

The web public went wild for Balint House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in 2014.



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Balint House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos The web public went wild for Balint House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos in 2014. The designers from the Spanish architecture firm created a house in an elliptical shape to minimise its footprint.



Fran Silvestre Arquitectos designed Balint House, one of the web’s iconic houses, whose encompassing shapes and minimal but striking interiors grab your attention, almost making you forget that it is actually a design response to some specific requirements of the planning regulations in Bétera, 15 km from Valencia, Spain: the building’s footprint had to be kept to a minimum. So the shape – with all due respect to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – doesn’t respond to the function, it responds to the site topography, a great location next to the golf course.





The whole house has been designed for continuous communication with the exterior. The building leaves plenty of room to the south for the crescent-shaped pool and garden, and plenty of vegetation blurs the lines between property and golf course on the other sides.





The neutral interiors and minimal furniture develop around the central void with a staircase leading up to the first floor that houses the bedrooms and patio integrated into the curved façade. Large windows, cut into the pure white envelope of the exterior cladding, give views of the outside at every level.





The rounded architecture looks almost like a golf-ball, further emphasising the ties between Balint House and the green – in both sense of the word.

(Christiane Bürklein)

Project: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Project Team: Fran Silvestre | Principal in charge, Fran Ayala | Architect, Ángel Fito | Architect, Adrián Mora | Architect, Jordi Martínez | Architect, Maria Masià | Architect
Location: Bétera, Valencia, Spain
Year: 2014
Photographer: Diego Opazo
Video: Alfonso Calza
Altri progetti di Fran Silvestre su Livegreenblog: http://www.floornature.com/blog/house-with-sea-views-by-fran-silvestre-architects-9275/http://www.floornature.com/blog/urban-design-by-fran-silvestre-arquitectos-9869/

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