Building elements. Product News Photographer: Pedro Pegenaute. TR House Barcelona is a single-family house with a compact morphology. Its shape is the answer to the limitations presented by the preexisting conditions, combined with an innovative solution and with solid functionality criteria. In light of the urban planning constrains of this site and once it is situated on a depressed area, we had to solve an accentuated slope between the main entrance and the access to the house, creating two levels of access; one inferior and one intermediate. Trough slopes and ramps that establish different relations between the landscape, the house and its interiors, we've tried to minimize the big impact of the gap between the main entrance and the lower part of the site.

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TR House Barcelona is a single-family house with a compact morphology defined by the urban conditions of the site. The result is a 3 heights volume seated on a level below the street, establishing visual relationships with the small river and being visual integrated with the landscape of buildings around. Its layout responds to the user needs, locating the main rooms of the house on an axis to give more privacy to the users from the street and neighbours and from their visual connection with the green environment. On the other axis the house pursues integration with the green environment. The house is laid out and structured around the patio that is located in the centre and is in charge of organizing all the rooms with a corridor along the patio perimeter.
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Text description provided by the architects. TR House Barcelona is a single-family house with a compact morphology. Its shape is the answer to the limitations presented by the pre-existing conditions, combined with an innovative solution and with solid functionality criteria. In light of the urban planning constrains of this site and once it is situated on a depressed area, we had to solve an accentuated slope between the main entrance and the access to the house, creating two levels of access; one inferior and one intermediate. The result is a 13,00m x 13,50m three-storey cube-shaped volume, placed on a lower level than the street, that tries to establish a visual relationship with the creek that delimits the site, at the same time as it integrates itself visually with the landscape and with the surrounding higher buildings.
Innovation and functionality is the binomial that characterizes one of the newest projects by PMMT, a Catalan architecture firm that just concluded the TR House in Barcelona. The result is a 13 x TR House Barcelona is a single-family house with a compact morphology. Its shape is the answer to the limitations presented by the pre-existing conditions, combined with an innovative solution and with solid functional criteria. In light of the urban planning constraints of the site, and because it is located in a recessed area, we had to solve an accentuated slope between the main entrance and the access to the house, creating two levels of access; one inferior and one intermediate. The cube-shaped volume, located on a lower level than the street, tries to establish a visual relationship with the creek that borders on the site, at the same time as it integrates itself visually with the landscape and with the surrounding higher buildings. In the opposite direction of this axis, the house seeks to merge with the verdant surroundings. The house is structured around a central patio that articulates all the rooms; the perimeter corridor surrounds it at the same time as it connects the different floors with a stairway, also located around the same patio. The existence of this central area allows for the entrance of daylight and creates an interesting game of crossed visual perspectives from one room to another.