New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Project category

Identify the award category for which this project is being submitted
Reconnecting with nature

Email user
olmartingomez@gmail.com

Basic information
Project title
LOÉ EMOCIONAL. HOUSE IN THE NATURE

Full Project Title
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Please provide a short, catchy description of your project to be used in communication towards the public.
Four scattered pavilions, linked to nature, protected by the trees of the property, overlooking the deep landscape of La Vega de Granada. A brick wall is used to connect them, and they appear with fascination, linked to their exclusive landscape. Memories are erased and reborn, raising an emotional influence in the space.

What was the geographical scope of your project?
Local

Where was your project implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Spain

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
La Vega de Granada.

Does your project address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your project refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your project benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your project won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Is your project fully completed
Yes

Please indicate a date (mm/yy)
2020-07-01

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual in partnership with other persons
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project).
- First name: Olympia
  Last name: Martín Gómez
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Spain
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Callejón de Matamoros 5
  Town: Granada
  Postal code: 18009
  Country: Spain
  Direct Tel: +34 656 99 60 28
  E-mail: olmartingomez@gmail.com
- First name: Eduardo
  Last name: Martín Martín
  Gender: Male
  Nationality: Spain
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Callejón de Matamoros 5
  Town: Granada
  Postal code: 18009
  Country: Spain
  Direct Tel: +34654481629
  E-mail: martinmartin.eduar@gmail.com
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/eduardo_martin/?hl=es
In case my project is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my project in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
New European Bauhaus or European Commission websites

Description of the project
Please provide a summary of your project.
Four scattered pavilions, linked to nature, protected by the trees of the property, overlooking the deep landscape of La Vega de Granada. A brick wall is used to connect them, and they appear with fascination, linked to their exclusive landscape. Memories are erased and reborn, raising an emotional influence in the space. "Nature becomes landscape when man frames it" Le Corbusier.
Architecture with simple lines that respects nature, with a marked horizontality and borrowing from the landscape. Configured by four scattered pavilions that seek a relationship with nature. It is enveloped and protected by the existing trees on the estate "disparate natural landscapes", it looks towards the depths of the Vega, and engages with the landscape. It is located on a plot of 1000m2, in Granada. The visual limit is set by the white peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Vega: a large, horizontal, ploughed landscape, fragmented by poplar groves and isolated buildings. The landscape changes over time, with the seasons, the variations in climate and the difference in crops. The dividing wall widens on the inside to house the gallery that leads to the pavilions. The pavilions appear in the dwelling by fascination, associated with disparate landscapes. The gallery is the threshold, the place where memories are erased and allow access to new ones. Experiences and perceptions that establish an emotional influence on the architectural space. Four buildings; of wood (bedrooms), time has acted and its colour is that of the trees, of glass (living room), open is the porch of the garden, a large walnut tree shelters it, reflective, immersed in a poplar grove, it perceives its magnitude enlarged (kitchen), sheltered (office), it allows work at home, on line, requested by the pandemic. The dividing wall inside is a gallery in semi-darkness. The entrails of a brick wall, which is inhabited to connect, creating a threshold to surprise with the heteroclite landscape of each pavilion.

Please indicate the main themes of your project with 5 key words.
Emotional

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
Pavilions

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
Landscape

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
Nature

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
Time

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
The house embraces the existing trees, which, because of their age, are sculptures in the landscape. The layout folds into them, protects the buildings, makes them sustainable by using nature as a base technology. Courtyards are founded in each pavilion, the exterior is medicine for the users.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
The origin of the house was the transformation of an old shed. The functional needs forced successive extensions and the resource exhibited gravitated towards leaving the wooden building free-standing, due to its uniqueness. New buildings were proposed, not in competition with the original one, creating changing passages, folded into nature, connected by the thickened dividing wall. Each pavilion erects different architectures.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
The project involves the renovation of a house in the countryside consisting of three pavilions and the creation of a new pavilion as a "connected office". The main objective is to convert it into a dwelling that meets the housing needs that the recent pandemic has shown to be lacking, to adapt it to its current living situation, to improve energy efficiency... and to enrich the quality of life of the owners.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project
It is a single-family house. It has been designed according to the needs of the users, enriching the quality of life of the owners.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the project. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was.
The participation is exclusive between the family and the architect. The architect has brought the emotional variable to the act of inhabiting.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your project. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was.
Architecture, nature, botany, geology and biology take precedence over technology.

Please give information on the results, outcomes and impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for. This includes also benefits from the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries
A work that reconnects with nature, grafts itself onto it, giving it priority, from the construction of landscapes. Loé emotional.

Please provide documents showing the results, outcomes and impacts of your project
Web link
Web link
- https://www.archdaily.cl/cl/956672/loe-emocional-vivienda-en-la-naturaleza-eduardo-martin-martin-plus-olympia-martin-gomez-arquitectos-asociados
Please highlight the innovative character of the project, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the project
Nature is architecture, architecture is nature.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your project.
The emotional factor included in the habitat, the construction of isolated pavilions to resolve the extension of a dwelling, thus constituting new experiences incorporated into changing landscapes.

Please describe which elements of your project could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and context. This may involve for example aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings etc.
Value the emotional component in architecture and the fact that sustainability is achieved with nature.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addresses by providing local solutions
Insist that nature is the best option towards sustainable architecture.
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Yes

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