“La Esclusa” estate

This project is born of the desire of a family to buy a second home in the Ebro Delta region.

The intention of the project began by seeking a singularity in the space that was induced by the presence of its occupants without this intruding on the traditional architecture of the region, which would generate a distortion in its regional identity.

The characteristics were simple: a space was sought that fled from the traditional architecture of the region but that was also part of it. The house had to be planned as a second family home, but also as a space that would allow a profit to be made by renting it out in full or in parts. These were the starting points of the project: to create a space that would work properly privately (family use) and publicly (rental of the space).

Everything began to fall into place when an old factory in the heart of the Ebro Delta was found. The space met the ideal characteristics to become what they were looking for.

The building is a late nineteenth-century construction, rectangular in layout, apparently of an easy distribution but with one drawback: the height for creating two levels does not comply with current regulations and the present total height does not help in the design of a space on the same level. This “drawback” has been the cornerstone of the subsequent design of the space.