Turègano House

Alberto Campo Baeza – Casa Turégano, Pozuelo, Spain 1989

The house was the result of a competition announced by the owners among their architect friends.
The topographical situation, hill, strict compliance with the ordinances and maximum compositional economy resolved in a white “cottage” cube measuring 10 x 10 x 10 m.
The white cube is divided into two: the northern half, with the service area, and the southern half, with the serviced spaces. The first includes a central strip with bathrooms, toilets and stairs. The bedrooms and kitchen face directly north.
In the served half there are the living and dining spaces, with double height, and the study in the highest part. The study turns into the dining room and this produces a diagonal space with triple height. The cubic character of this is accentuated by the tension of the glass flush with the facade and by the white color with which everything is resolved in it.
Light, the central theme of this house, in its east-southwest direction, is captured, trapped, by windows and cracks, becoming, in its movement, the spatial protagonist of this project.
It is a diagonal space crossed by a diagonal light.