Casa El Gregal
Single-family residence sited on a corner lot within the El Gregal community. Rather than centering the house on the plot, the design occupies two of its corners with a long, narrow volume that bends to follow the property edges, consolidating the street fronts of the urban block and releasing the entire interior of the lot as a single, generous open space.
The thin floor plate is a deliberate spatial strategy: by reducing the building’s width, the architecture liberates the outer corners as projecting balconies and ensures that every habitable room enjoys both a street facade and a garden facade, with natural cross-ventilation and views across the freed interior of the site. The plan curves gently along its length, organizing the program in a continuous sequence over two levels — service, common areas, and access on the lower floor, private rooms above — while the bend itself becomes the spatial pivot of the house, the point where one side of the home addresses the other across the central garden.
The roof takes the form of two parallel barrel vaults that run the full length of the building and lift the upper-floor ceilings into a curved volume overhead. The vaults are not a stylistic flourish but the principal spatial event of the interior: their geometry transforms what would otherwise be a corridor-like footprint into a series of rooms with real spatial generosity, while externally they give the house a calm, recognizable silhouette within the neighborhood. The siting on a sloping lot allows part of the volume to lift off the ground on slender supports, reinforcing the lightness of the long bar and freeing the landscape to flow beneath it.
