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The house has an exterior<br />

garden and a swimming<br />

pool. The curved shapes of<br />

the fireplace are supported<br />

on the stairs that lead down<br />

to the semi-basement.<br />

The main door marks the<br />

highest point on the plot<br />

and opens to an ample hall<br />

that distributes the rooms<br />

in the ground floor.<br />

The house also boasts a<br />

heated swimming pool<br />

with several deck chairs<br />

designed by the studio.<br />

JOAQUÍN TORRES, ARCHITECT<br />

In 1996, the architecture and townplanning<br />

studio A-cero started operating,<br />

and it has had a very fast evolution. The<br />

studio has grown at an amazing pace,<br />

and it has doubled its staff as the work<br />

volume increased in recent years. Its<br />

origin is in the town of A Coruña, but they<br />

soon enlarged their offices and opened<br />

their central headquarters in Madrid. The<br />

studio, headed by the tandem of architects<br />

Joaquín Torres and Rafael Llamazares,<br />

has since its beginnings focused on an<br />

integral development of architectural<br />

projects: turnkey deliveries, all of them<br />

works previously designed by the architect<br />

team. Its architecture outstands, as it is<br />

very current, pondered over and neat, and<br />

special attention is paid to each and every<br />

detail. Nowadays, they maintain an office<br />

in A Coruña, have also facilities in Dubai<br />

and in the near future will open an office<br />

in the Dominican Republic. The key to the<br />

success of their many works, according<br />

to Joaquín Torres, lies in not losing the<br />

coherence of the idea all throughout the<br />

process. Outstanding among their projects<br />

are single-family houses, singular buildings,<br />

offices, as well as interior design and<br />

landscaping projects.<br />

capacity for eight cars, a storeroom and a junk room. As regards the<br />

distribution of the semi-basement, it opens onto the garden thanks<br />

to huge glaziers. It has four bedrooms, a guest lounge, the changingrooms<br />

of the exterior swimming pool, a media room and, finally, the<br />

rooms arranged for domestic help: bedrooms, office, drying-place,<br />

lounge, storerooms and facility rooms. The upper floor is reserved to<br />

the painting workshop, with lots of natural light.<br />

To attain an effect of continuity among the different spaces, the<br />

team of architects enhanced that feeling by paving the three floors<br />

with white big-format porcelain stoneware, highly resistant and durable.<br />

Concerning the walls, the architects chose the white colour for the<br />

semi-basement floor and a grey tone for the upper floors, matching<br />

with the facade of rough-textured concrete. Another important element<br />

in the conception of this house is water. From the entry door a series<br />

of flooded roofs visually connect with the exterior swimming pool and<br />

with the lake. The garden has also been designed by the landscaping<br />

department of A-cero. /<br />

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