Spanish architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales have completed the House at the Pyrenees in Canejan, Catalonia, Spain. 

This beautiful, spacious modern house was a project to recuperate this old vernacular house. It’s located on top of a mountain and it views two different valleys. All these spacious smallish homes are amazing, I want my home to be as homey as this one is. 

By preserving the original structure and doing a minimal yet contrasted intervention, the idea is to generate new and contemporary spaces for living, respecting the historic envelope. On the basement of the house, and responding to a structural weakness of a section of the existing wall, a big opening is shaped within the dry stone wall.  Such opening permits amazing views and interior natural lighting to a second living and dining room; the rest of spaces accommodated within the old enclosure have a remnant sense of the old construction, although they are distributed according to new ways of living, in a more contemporary reading of architecture. - Cadaval & Sola-Morales

More photos of the “House at the Pyrenees” after the click.

Source: Contemporist

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