Rufo House

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Alberto Campo Baeza
Alberto Campo Baeza
Alberto Campo Baeza

The idea is to build a house on the top of a hill on the outskirts of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and has very interesting far horizon views to the northwest, reaching as far as the Gredos Mountains. The plot has a size of 60 x 40 and a slope of about 10 metres. At the top, we set up a longitudinal podium 6 metres wide and 3 metres high, from side to side, as long as the plot is. Inside this long box, all the functions of the house are carried out.

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This long piece of concrete creates a long horizontal platform on high, like a breakwater that underlines the landscape with enormous force. This long concrete box is conveniently drilled and hollowed out creating full and empty spaces that adequately accommodate the requested functions (courtyard+ covered courtyard, kitchen, living room-dining room-lobby, bedroom, patio + courtyard, bedroom, garage, pool, bedroom, courtyard). And just as the living-dining room opens onto the garden, the bedrooms open onto courtyard that open onto the sky and the garden, giving them privacy.

Javier Callejas Sevilla
Javier Callejas Sevilla

At the back of the living/dining room is the staircase leading to the upper level. Above the podium and flush with it, a canopy is built with ten square concrete pillars supporting a simple flat roof. As if it were a ten-legged table. Under the roof and behind the pillars, a light glass box. To protect us from the view of the house behind, we planted a few simple poplars. Once again the theme of the Hut over the Cave. Once again the theme of tectonic architecture over stereotomic architecture.

Javier Callejas Sevilla

General information

Rufo House

YEAR

2009

Status

Built

Option to visit

Closed to visitors

Address

Ave. Monte Sion, 158

45004 Toledo - Toledo

Latitude: 39.852995058

Longitude: -4.076014009

Classification

Building materials

Concrete

Built area

1 - 500 m²

Involved architects

Alberto Campo Baeza

Collaborators

Javier Callejas (Photographer)

Raúl Martínez (Architect)

Juan Antonio Domínguez (HCA) (Structure)

José Miguel Agulló (Quantity Surveyor)

Petter Palander (Architect)

Involved architectural firms

Alberto Campo Baeza

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Website links

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