Weekend house in the cellar of a bourgeois house in a rural setting, dating from the early 20th century. It is a functionally annexed building, integrated into the overall composition of the house: a central body and two side wings. The space to be renovated runs along one of the sides, which used to contain a small apartment for farm workers and the vats and storage rooms for making the estate's oil and wine.
The proposal retains the vats in the central area, raised above the ground, and both loading and unloading windows, leaving two double-height spaces at each end, coinciding with the generous doors opening to the outside.
Each of the component parts has direct access to the garden, with the bedrooms opening through the old windows. For this reason, external wooden stairs are attached to the façade, evoking elements of the rural world such as handmade fruit boxes or rabbit cages.
The introduction of new uses has led to the differentiation of the new openings, which are square and have a specific design that takes advantage of the thickness of the walls. They are made of glass on the outside and shutters on the inside, so that the thickness of the walls is evident and all possible positions for ventilation and lighting are possible.
The interior is treated as a single container, articulated at the central point with the bedroom furniture and bathroom, and containing double-height spaces at the end that avoid unidirectionality and constitute two poles of activity that balance the extremes, a recurring problem in linear layouts.
