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B House by ch+qs arquitectos

By Jessica Mejias

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B House is a contemporary residential project completed in 2011 by ch+qs arquitectos.

Located in Berrocal, Segovia, Spain, this single story home makes considerable use of wooden surfaces to add a clean sort of warmth.

B House by ch+qs arquitectos:

“Yellow

This is a humanized landscape of meadows, walls, ash, streams, a small-scale landscape, minimal, almost domestic, and where absolutely everything has yellow accents. In spring poke all yellow flowers. In the summer, the cereal, harvest, and the Castilian heat are yellow.

Fall only comes here in yellow ash, millions of tiny leaves that die in a lingering and dry yellow. In winter, yellow insists in glowing flashes of yellow lichen on the gray trunks of ash trees. And here the machines are yellow, the signs are yellow, all is yellow.

We bought a meadow in this landscape 15 years ago, and after 12 years of yellow contemplation, we decided to build a house there, a refuge, a piece of landscape as a frame, a small inhabited threshold with two views, east and west.

To the west, a nearby view of rocks, moss, brambles and ancient ash. And to the east, the distant dawn over the yellow mountains. This double view and the body finished the design of the house.

Everything is small, everything is short, everything has a tiny scale. From outside, the view slides over the house:

The eye only stops at a yellow gate guarding the doorway, and a yellow chimney that warms it, the rest is invisible.

And when sitting, stopping in the doorway, the house disappears and the world continues in yellow.”

Photos by: FG + SG

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About Jessica Mejias

Jessica is a resident of Madrid, where she often can be found stalking the halls of the Prado Museum, hoping to catch a glimpse of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. An Art History graduate, she enjoys admiring art and architecture, reading, and keeping young by playing video games. Learn more about HomeDSGN's Editorial Process.

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