proyectos

Casa de Tapia en Ayerbe

Aragón

Contemporary single-family home by architect Àngels Castellarnau (Edra Arquitectura km0), built with structural rammed earth walls in Ayerbe, Huesca. A vernacular house for the 21st century: 80% of materials come from within a 150 km radius. A modern reinterpretation of Pyrenean-Aragonese rammed earth, with thick walls providing thermal mass and hygrothermal regulation. Structure combined with local timber. Heating by biomass boiler, a rainwater harvesting and reuse system, and passive solar architecture. Awarded the Terra Award 2016 (International Contemporary Earthen Architecture Award) in the single-family housing category, selected from over 350 entries worldwide. A benchmark for modern Spanish rammed earth and a demonstration of how rammed earth can be integrated with the CTE (Spanish Building Code).

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Projects

Region

Aragón

Official website

terra-award.org