Hemeroscopium House in Madrid

This amazing house of 400 m2 situated in Las Rozas, was designed for a year and built in seven days for its author, the architect Anton Garcia-Abril for Ensemble Studio. For the Greeks, Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets, an allusion to the horizon, a place that exists only in our minds, our senses, which always changes, but that is not real. And so is the house of Anton Garcia-Abril, a domestic space and rooms that can see the distant horizon limit where escape.
The interior of the house is air, light, transparent, fluid and alive. And this light is defined with heavy structures, creating a very special place with an amazing language, where the form disappears and appears empty.
The design took a year of complex calculations, but the construction of the structure was made in just seven days, thanks to the total precast elements and perfect coordination in the assembly. The whole house materializes his balance on a rock of granite 20 tons, the point where it concentrates the force of gravity converge and where the weight of the entire structure. From this main beam, the remaining structures, increasingly light, are stacked in a helix to grow up in a sequence of seven points in total, becoming lighter.