Casa Balint - Fran Silvestre Arquitectos amazes again with KRION®
08/01/2015
When an architecture studio like that of Fran Silvestre is presented with a material with the characteristics of KRION®, possibilities become infinite; and this project in Bétera, Valencia, is a clear example of the boundless ingenuity of Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.
As the studio tells us:
“A privileged location in a golf course located in the outskirts of Valencia was the starting point of the project.
The design was sketched out through elliptical outlines which contain the project, maximising the possibilities allowed by regulations and minimising the volumetric impact on the location. Thus, there is one piece with a continuous facade, which seems to contain a single floor and whose visually aerodynamic condition draws the gaze towards the depth of the neighbouring landscape.
The interior space of the house is linked up through a central empty space in which the core of communication is found. The service spaces, the facilities and the kitchen allow the orthonomalisation of the curved outline of a lower floor which opens onto the garden. The upper floor with the bedrooms and the basement which opens onto the patio delimit the spaces of the home.
The concrete structure of the lower floor holds up the covering arch of the floor structure of the night area with four supports. This structure is covered with a monolithic ventilated facade made with KRION®, the Solid Surface from PORCELANOSA Group, which with a simple curvature and without need for thermoforming adapts to the geometry of the piece. The rest of the materials range from white to black through all shades of grey.
We do not find KRION® only in the ventilated facade created by Butech, a firm of the PORCELANOSA Group, but also in the interior where we can appreciate bathroom countertops, shower trays, bathroom furniture, a dining table and the kitchen countertop made with KRION® by VF Superficies Solidas.
Project team: “Fran Silvestre | Project Architect” – “Fran Ayala | Architect” – “Ángel Fito | Architect” – “Adrián Mora | Architect” – “Jordi Martínez | Architect” – “Maria Masià | Architect” – “Carlos García | Technical Architect”
Photographer: Diego Opazo.
