S’Agaró Terrace Housing in Costa Brava
Client
Private
Location
Platja d’Aro, Spain
Year
2021-2025
Surface
2000 m²
Awards
2025 Archello Awards, Housing of the Year, Low Rise – Longlisted
Overview
Il Cielo iGuzzini does not belong to the ground on which it sits. Like a balloon, Leonidov’s aerostat, it will attempt to escape from this world, seeking a new sky. It will describe the conditions of the light, natural and artificial, in its interior, it will refer to its origins, recognizing a geometric order, but above all it will want to speak to us of aspirations.
Moored to the ground, it belongs to this place, and to all other places. In reality there are forms that can only be drawn once, buildings that can only be built once. The second time is a replica. We believe in this opportunity for iGuzzini. Because this form, imperfect, slightly deformed, belongs to the world of iGuzzini; its identification is easy, and not everyone can, with authority, appropriate this profile, this geometry. A light, a big world, a big atrium around a shared central court… where the sense of belonging is proudly made explicit.
Il Cielo iGuzzini does not seek to boast of explicit technological innovation, since that would soon date it as new technologies rapidly superseded its own content. But it does seek to be an example of current development towards well understood sustainability in both technological and energy terms.
Overview
This project marks the first phase of a larger residential development on a small hill in S’Agaró, overlooking the sea along the Costa Brava in Catalonia.
Strict local regulations and volumetric planning laws for this type of construction allow only prismatic volumes, each accommodating a maximum of four dwellings. The design responds to these constraints by placing four apartments within each prism, organized as two per floor.
The building is divided into a night area on the north side, overlooking the hill and including bedrooms and bathrooms, and a day area on the south side, facing the sea. The latter is conceived as a large, terrace-like open-plan space integrating the living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Accordingly, the north façade features large vertical openings, while the south façade is entirely glazed. The exterior terrace extends the interior space.
The opaque parts of the building are clad in sand-colored glazed ceramic, while the rest is made of glass. The garden preserves the natural terrain and wild vegetation, complemented by an infinity pool at the edge of the plot that completes the leisure spaces.
This project marks the first phase of a larger residential development on a small hill in S’Agaró, overlooking the sea along the Costa Brava in Catalonia.
Strict local regulations and volumetric planning laws for this type of construction allow only prismatic volumes, each accommodating a maximum of four dwellings. The design responds to these constraints by placing four apartments within each prism, organized as two per floor.
The building is divided into a night area on the north side, overlooking the hill and including bedrooms and bathrooms, and a day area on the south side, facing the sea. The latter is conceived as a large, terrace-like open-plan space integrating the living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Accordingly, the north façade features large vertical openings, while the south façade is entirely glazed. The exterior terrace extends the interior space.
The opaque parts of the building are clad in sand-colored glazed ceramic, while the rest is made of glass. The garden preserves the natural terrain and wild vegetation, complemented by an infinity pool at the edge of the plot that completes the leisure spaces.