Located nearby a natural park 20 miles NW of Barcelona, architects Quim Larrea & Katherine Bedwell has collaborated on designing the Rambed contemporary house. The site is a perfect retreat, surrounded by pine trees, oaks, and scented by the perfume of wild bushes and flowers.
The house design is built with a “V” shape plan which has horizontal and tectonic profile. At the same time, the modern house has friendly and respectful treat with the forest. It levitates on the site in oder to simulate weightlessness.
Due to the characteristics of the lot, the complexity of the project was to solve and define-with architectural elements-which were the public facades and which were the private ones. The architects decided to make two volumes to well define the most intimate part of the woods in order to keep it, as much as possible, away from the street.
The materials chosen –limestone, wood and steel – had to integrate well with the surroundings, and the color scheme was carefully studied, selecting sober and neutral tones that would blend seamlessly with the site’s natural background setting.
