Near the Catalan village of Camallera, in the Empordà, architects Sergi Serra and Marta Adroer have designed a home with striking horizontal lines whose interrelation conveys a harmonious sense of movement and, at the same time, of calm. A large, elongated single-level volume partially covered in local natural stone, slightly elevated and sheltered by a series of courtyards and porches, emerges from the rust-colored ground. As in an unexpected shift from the building’s footprint, a pool reminiscent of a long irrigation reservoir overlaps with part of the front wall, extending beyond it. The water’s surface mirrors the stone and the sky.

The open space inside this imposing structure springs to life with a sequence of light and shadow marked by the columns placed at regular intervals along the large expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows. Across from these, against the opposing interior wall, an utterly simple bulthaup b3 kitchen in white laminate with a separate cooking island is the key element that brings this clear, fluid space together–a place where people cook, eat, read, talk, and watch the changing light in the late afternoon.

bulthaup Girona

Architects: Sergi Serra and Marta Adroer

Date: December 2013

Place: Camallera, Girona

Kitchen Space:  19,22 m2

Photograph: Lourdes Jansana