Guerrero House

Alberto Campo Baeza – Casa Guerrero, Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain 2005

“Build a house full of light and well-coordinated shadow.
We built very high walls, 8 meters high, on a 33x18 meter rectangle of which we covered the central band of 9x18 meters. We raise the roof of the central square of 9x9 until it reaches the height of 8 meters of the walls. To fill the central space of the shadows, we open its two sides in front and behind creating 3 meter deep porches that protect these holes from the sun and temper the light. On both sides, bedrooms and bathrooms.
In the front patio, at the entrance of the house, four orange trees mark the center and the main axis, flanked by low walls that hide the service areas. In the back yard, four more orange trees lined up. And finally, dug into the ground, a pool with water from one side to the other.
A house that is a luminous constructed penumbra”.
Alberto Campo Baeza