Stgilat Aiguablava: A Mediterranean Case Study

Energy and sustainability, Enric Ruiz Geli / Cloud 9, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

Acoustics, Air quality, Architecture&nature, Begur, Building, Ceramic skin, Comfort, Computation, Concrete, Digital design, Digital fabrication, Digitally-augmented, Ecological researches, Efficiency, Experimental, Experimental Fabrications, Experimentation, Housing, Innovation, Landscape, Local materials, Local techniques, Mediterranean Sea, New techniques, Pavilion, Performative Envelope, Power of materiality, Project, Rain Water Harvesting, Research, Robotics, Smart tool, Space, Spain, Spatiality, Structure, Technology, Territorial Approach, Thermodynamics, Topography, User’s experience, Vault

Photography: Gregori Civera and Jordi Alcalà / Itot Produccions

The main goal of this project was not to build a villa but a case study house.
What is a case study house? R. Neutra, who designed a case study house in Los Angeles in the 1940s, said:

You’re all building with stone, when we should be building with prefabricated modules that can be easily manufactured and assembled in a week.

It was a revolution, cutting costs and providing a path to the middle class. That was R. Neutra’s approach. (There are roughly 200 case study houses in the Los Angeles area.)