Happy House Begur

ALLRESIDENTIAL

30 nov

Private house, Aiguablava, Begur

The Happy House is a private house that sits on the slope of Aiguablava in Begur, Girona, overlooking the natural creek. The design principles for this project are based on sustainability, from its integration into the terrain and the landscape to its energy efficiency and low carbon footprint. The building embraces a patio while takes the path down to its entrance, in an attempt to consider its vegetal rooftop as a natural slope of the mountain. A basement with concrete pillars lifts the load of the house from the ground in a system of bridge-like steel trusses, while the façade responds to this condition accordingly.

The house opposes the glazed and transparent character of the ground floor, which accommodates the common programme, to the ceramic and porous first floor, where the bedrooms are and intimacy needs to be preserved. The façade detail for the first floor responds to a ventilated façade layering where the iteration of a ceramic piece as a second skin guarantees its ventilation; in the meantime, its form in a cantilever casts shadows onto the basement and sets the right conditions to temper the terraces and interior spaces of the ground floor.

Ferusic Architects, Relja Ferusic, Happy House Begur

Data:

Construction year: 2021

Built Surface area: 455 m2

Team:

Architects: Relja Ferusic Manusev and Carles Sala Roig

Structural engineering: MOST Enginyers (Dusko Hadzijanev y Antonio Lara)

MEP engineering: ESTUDIENTAC (Joan Josep Navarro)

Technical Architect: Josep Garriga Bona

Interior Stylist: Cuca Arraut

General contractor: Rubau Tarrés

Ceramic façade: Ceràmica Cumella (Toni Cumella)

Steel structure: Estructuras Quintana

MEP: Simó Girona Industries

Aluminium carpentry: Alurei

Gabion walls: Muroxs

Gardening: Vivers Ter and Drim Medi Ambient

Photography: Marcela Grassi

Video: Toposcan B30 (Xavier Blanco)

Relja Ferusic

Relja Ferusic is a registered architect at COAC, AABiH and REG Switzerland. He graduated with Honours from the ETSAB (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) in Barcelona, where he later obtained an MSc on urban space and digital social networks.

In 2005 he founded a studio FERUSIC ARCHITECTS in Barcelona, a framework in which he currently develops his professional career, focused on architectural design, urban planning. Relja Ferusic also co-founded SALA FERUSIC Architects, a partnership association under which he developed most of his last projects and works.

In terms of research, he is currently directing BODEGA Research Group, which pursues the design and fabrication of solutions for winemaking in future scenarios, under the scope of the AA School of Architecture in London and IAAC in Barcelona. His investigation work has been acknowledged by COAC with the Architectural Innovation Award and awarded with a research grant by ‘Banc Sabadell’ Foundation.

He has taught Architectural Design at D-Arch (ETH) in Zurich, ESARQ (UIC) in Barcelona, WSA Cardiff, and ran a seminar at the Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC in Barcelona.

Since 2015 Relja Ferusic holds a position of Associate Lecturer in Architectural Design at the ETSAB in Barcelona where he teaches at First Year and leads a Laboratory for Computational Architecture (LAC) at Fifth Year.

https://www.ferusic.com

Happy House Begur

Data:

Team:

Ingravitis Mas Rodó Winery