The Maryvilla House
The Maryvilla House is born from the place where it is located. Thanks to the privileged location of the house at the top of the Morro de Toix, you can see the Costa Blanca in its maximum splendor, from the Peñon de Ifach to the Sierra de Bernia and Ferrer. Looking for the best views, the house adapts to the surrounding landscape and the conditions of the plot, creating, at the same time, a series of topographical movements. A house that looks towards the landscape and creates its own.
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The steep slope of the land encourages the terracing of the house following the natural slope of the mountain, achieving that all rooms enjoy the extraordinary view. In this way, the landscape merges with the interior of the house as it flows into the landscape, blurring the boundaries between one and the other without altering the landscape. The swimming pool scratches the mountain perpendicular to the slope of the land, as a natural geographical feature, as occurs between the Peñón de Ifach and the Mediterranean Sea. The movement generated by the house seeks the greatest solar gain of the plot, articulated around a central courtyard that opens the main rooms of the house to the sun and allows natural cross ventilation.
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The use of natural materials creates balanced and timeless atmospheres. The natural stone in the terraces that are introduced in the interior rooms; the exterior stone pavement that causes the ground floor to be understood as a cut made in the mountain, showing its stony materiality; the water, which is intertwined with the house as in the nearby coves; the green roof, the wooden carpentry, the marble tables, everything is part of a balance that moves between the natural and the built.
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The access to the house is through a roof viewing deck, from where you can enjoy a panoramic view from Calpe to Moraira, with the green roof of the house in the foreground and the Mediterranean Sea in the background. Through the tour of the house, an experience is created where the most interesting points of the environment are focused and framed through the large windows, putting them in value. When descending to the ground floor, nature takes over the house: the stone terraces that go inside, the water of the pool that surrounds the house, the large wooden windows that are hidden so that the spaces flow from the inside to the outside, and vice versa.
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The house has been designed bioclimatically, taking full advantage of the natural protential of the place where it is located. The green roof, in addition to integrating the building into the mountainside, improves both thermal inertia and insulation. The entire building is insulated to the outside, from the surfaces against the ground to the facades, avoiding thermal bridges. Rainwater and gray water are reused for toilets, cleaning uses and watering of the green roof. As for the installations, for air conditioning and ventilation, a geothermal installation and a heat recovery ventilation system were installed, and the electricity supply is complemented by photovoltaic solar panels.
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The interior design of the house has been worked at the same time as its architecture, achieving a symbiosis between the two. The kitchen has been designed as an organic element that integrates and dialogues with all the spaces that surround it, playing with these organic forms and adapting to the needs of each space. For the furniture, designer pieces, such as the tables, are combined with other pieces of Mediterranean design, achieving a balance of materials, tones and shapes.
