OOIIO Architect's team has specialized over the years in designing and building unique houses, investigating different creative techniques capable of surprising and awakening new sensations in the projects they create, as in the case of Casa Albania, located in a quiet residential area right where the countryside meets the urban, in Ciudad Real, Spain
Casa Albania and the Mills of La Mancha, a muse for the inspiration of the project
How to approach designing a house from a blank sheet of paper? How to make something so many times repeated as a single-family home design singular and special?
Applying the "paranoid-critical" method used by Dali and other Surrealist artists, the OOIIO Architectural Team searches for references, connections, in the world of dreams, of imagination, which they then shape and transform into reality through technique and construction logic
The Mills of La Mancha, which emerge strikingly in the landscape of this area as cylindrical, coarse white volumes that play with sunlight and wind, were the muse for the project. Their shape and simple architecture is a combination of the vertical lines of the white cylinder with the diagonals of its characteristic blades and sloping roof
Albania House is meant to be an abstraction of all this; OOIIO Architects wanted to suggest the image of windmills in a contemporary single-family house. A house reminiscent of a mill, broken down and reassembled, to complete a different figure. A game, an experiment, an application of artistic techniques in architecture, to create a unique work that is anything but standard
The entire creative process was focused on solving the clients' needs, always following principles of sustainability and efficiency, fitting everything into a limited budget with simple materials and quick construction techniques. The program is distributed in three volumes: to the west is the living room with a triangular floor plan, to the east is the kitchen and bedroom with a square floor plan, and between the two is an atrium-like reception hall, directly extracted from local vernacular architecture
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