One family housing in Aravaca -Madrid - Spain

Abstract

The distribution of the main floor of this one family house is as follows: dining room, drawing room and living room; six bedrooms with four complete bathrooms; and the household section with kitchen, laundry and ironing room, breakfast room plus two additional bedrooms with adjoining bathrooms, On a smaller second floor there is a spacious study, extended towards the outside by terraces, whereas the basement holds a garage, rooms for the staff, a wine cellar and the play-room for the children. Arranged according to a west-east longitudinal distribution scheme, the façades of the building are oriented towards the south and the north. The northern side connects the main rooms with the back garden where a swimming pool and a tennis court are situated. The treatment of the façades an original combination of crown tile and facing bricks— is particularly interesting in view of the varying height of the roofs that are adapted to the irregular planform and are provided with tile covered chimneys.