The project creates a garden inside the block at street level. The initial requirements are to create a pleasant atmosphere considering the physical conditions and generate a continuous reading from the interior of the building to the courtyard.
The ground floor and the patio present a sequence of geometric elements that mark the different rhythms of the route and living room. The marble volume is replaced by the plant volume. Natural light and the way in which it gradually becomes present, always with reference to the end of the open garden, is an important part of this transition.
The introduction of vegetation begins with a fall of vegetation from a planter located on the first floor that filters the light entering the interior of the lobby. Once outside, a vegetable corridor is generated thanks to a fence that encloses the ground floor terraces forming a vegetable cube. The next step is a circle of gravel drawn on the marble pavement enhanced with trees of different ports. The plant species mix the deciduous leaf with the perennial creating different sensations. Finally, and as a transition between the two patio levels, the hexagonal pool is placed. In this case, the vegetation closes the space in the perimeter creating a perennial background with a certain tropical character. The vegetation together with the building materials are subjected to this transit from changing to fixed generating different atmospheres or rooms within the site. These rooms have complementary elements such as the ramp, the shower or the chimney cylinder.
The colours of the building are complemented by the plants’ green tonalities, almost always playing with the yellow of the marble, the green and the white of the tiles. In the garden, the colours of the vegetation predominate: the pink and lilac blooms in early spring, the bright green of the first leaves of the Parthenocissus on the garden walls that slowly recover after winter, the intense green of summer, the yellowish and orange tones of the background during autumn and the bare branches in winter.