The foundations of the house are finished before the summer break. It is the base for the house, a reinforced concrete slab. The next step, the retaining walls, that will support the upper level.
Sirine Ghadban
The construction of our last project has started. After the excavation, this is going to be the exact view from the main living space of the house. Despite of the high temperature of these days, we are delighted of checking a well worked project in our weekly site visits.
Sirine Ghadban
We visited this exposition last day, Trazos en la arena, from Joaquín Sorolla, the valencian famous painter. It was at the museum that used to be his house in Madrid. The house is made with bits from each place. The mediterranean garden has a great influence from the Alhambra, and inside the valencian ceramic is on the dishes and on the walls. The house, where light plays a main role, shows yet some matters of the modern architecture from the beginnings of XXth century.
We were fascinated watching the light from his brush-strokes, and we kept in mind this quotation. Because it shows the fact of thinking while drawing, or drawing while thinking: the great meaning that is behind a stroke. A sketch, although not strictly materialised, will always be a required step to the project.
Sirine Ghadban
Arquixabia was founded in 2006. Since then, the projects have been growing day by day, in terms of scale or complexity. In the last years our geographic scope had also expanded. Now it is time to update our appearance: Ghadban de Pascual architects shows us as we are. And with the structure of this new website we offer the sample of what we are passionate about. Thanks to Paco from www.delaweb.net to let us show the reality of our soul.
We do not build houses, we design dreams.
Sirine Ghadban
Our house is our second skin. With the scientific and technological developments, construction is improving itself and also the quality level that is wanted from the buildings. Nevertheless, if this is required due to geopolitical reasons or contamination reduction, what an owner has at short term with a well insulated house is the energy consumption decrease.
However, a high insulation is not the only factor to provide more comfortable houses in comparison to those built in the previous years. A good isolation allows to store the heat inside of the house not letting it escape in winter and avoiding its entrance in summer. There are other complementary factors such as the solar protections that also allow the sun heat to enter the house only in winter avoiding it in summer.
Javea’s local stone Tosca is a sandstone, resulting from the consolidation of the sea and its plenitude sand dunes (over 2.5 million years ago). The water bulk flow, the winds, and the atmosphere and climate conditions contributed to the consolidation and the cementing of the sand, as a result of the cartilage of calcium chloride, one the main elements of the mountains that form part of Javea´s landscape.