描述
Fran Silvestre Arquitectura 2018–2026 brings together a carefully curated selection of homes that synthesize the studio’s recent research into residential architecture . The house is approached here as a privileged workspace, where light, materials, and technique are precisely combined to create clear, serene, and rigorous spaces.
This publication follows up on the 2017 monograph, *Scenarios for Life *, which compiled the studio’s early works alongside projects of varying scales. In contrast to that broader overview, this edition focuses exclusively on recent domestic production , allowing for a more nuanced and mature understanding of their career.
Through projects built in diverse contexts, the collection showcases an architecture that pursues essentiality without sacrificing complexity: refined spaces defined by the relationship between interior and exterior, the control of light, and constant structural optimization. The houses presented—from Casa Piera and Casa del Silencio to Casa Lago and The Sphinx—reveal a coherent evolution based on formal clarity , lightness, and a precise attention to everyday life.
In this exploration, the house emerges as an open system capable of integrating landscape, program, and technique within a single design logic. The projects explore blurred boundaries, continuous spatial sequences, and a reduced materiality that intensifies the domestic experience, placing the inhabitant at the heart of the architecture without resorting to unnecessary formal gestures.
The texts by Álvaro Siza , Manuel Aires Mateus and Emilio Tuñón place this work in a broader context, highlighting its ability to construct a silent, rigorous and contemporary architecture , where technique becomes a means to achieve the essential.
With extensive graphic and technical documentation, this monograph offers a synthetic and profound vision of a practice that understands housing as a support for life and as a space for architectural research.
Contents
Three notes on Fran Silvestre, architects
Álvaro Siza, Manuel Aires Mateus, Emilio Tuñón
Casa Piera, Burriana, Castellón, Spain;
Casa del silencio, La Cañada, Valencia, Spain;
Casa Sabater, Alicante, Spain;
La casa vacía, Valencia, Spain;
Casa de arena, Valencia, Spain;
Casa en el aire, Zahara de los Atunes, Cádiz, Spain;
Casa en Sotogrande, Cádiz, Spain;
Casa Compluvium, Madrid, Spain;
Pati Blau, Valencia, Spain;
Casa Álamo, Madrid, Spain;
Casa Camiral, Caldes de Malavella, Girona, Spain;
Casa 95, Sotogrande, San Roque, Cádiz, Spain;
Casa 18, La Moraleja, Madrid, Spain;
Casa Laván, La Moraleja, Madrid, Spain;
Casa Lago, La Moraleja, Madrid, Spain;
Mas Cadalt, Canet d’Adri, Girona, Spain;
Casa Cano, Alicante, Spain;
Roca Views Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain;
Casa en Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain;
Casa Gaitanes, La Moraleja, Madrid, Spain;
Casa espejo de agua, Calpe, Alicante, Spain;
The Sphinx, North Coast, Alexandria, Egypt
The values of Fran Silvestre architects
Pablo Camarasa
House on a cliff, Calpe, Alicante, Spain.
House on the hillside of a castle, Ayora, Valencia, Spain.
Balint House, Bétera, Valencia, Spain.
Hofmann House, Valencia, Spain.
