This is a single-family terraced house, located in the town of Alginet, in Valencia. The building consists of two floors and has a constructed area of approximately 360 m2.
The house is configured together with one of the shared walls, up to about half the depth. There is a patio at the rear of the plot, where the pool is located, and a longitudinal patio parallel to the house.
The ground floor presents the functional part of the living space, and at the same time the more public areas. The entire façade of the patio is glazed in almost all of its entirety. In contrast, the first floor of the house is considered as a mainly closed volume with emptyings in the terrace area and an overhang over the perimeter of the ground floor.
Windmill's mission was to carry out the design and calculation of the housing structural project, focusing on finding a light solution for the slabs despite the large spans and overhangs that the building presents, and supporting the house with the minimum vertical supports to free the maximum free space of the floors. The entire structure is resolved by a cantilever in apparent imbalance.
To achieve this, vertical support concrete walls and metal pillars have been arranged in a timely manner. As for the horizontal elements, they are solved with collaborative forging, on IPE laminated steel belts that also support metal HEB type beams of the same edge. In this way, it is possible to save spans up to 8 meters in the most unfavorable case, and embed the entire floor, in a thickness of 27 cm without any pick-up element.
The upper façade of the building has a metal truss embedded in it that functions as a continuous beam throughout the perimeter. This is based on two transversely braced points.