{"id":539175,"date":"2026-03-14T03:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:48:28","slug":"camp-alliances-house-has-reciprocal-relationship-with-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/539175\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp Alliances house has “reciprocal relationship” with forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angular\u00a0forms cloaked in green-toned metal<\/a> make up Camp Alliances, a family home in Spain<\/a> by Madrid studio OF Architects<\/a> and architect Ignacio G Gala\u0301n<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nestled within a forest in Avila, the dwelling is organised across three levels, including a lower-ground floor at its southern end that addresses the home’s sloping site.<\/p>\n

\"AerialOF Architects and Ignacio Gala\u0301n have completed a family home in Avila<\/p>\n

According to Gala\u0301n, the home has a “compact volume” intended to reduce its impact on the surrounding nature and to establish a “reciprocal relationship with the forest”.<\/p>\n

This goal is also reflected in the home’s geometry, which OF Architects<\/a> and Gala\u0301n designed so that each room has windows on at least two facades, maximising natural light, ventilation and views.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorIts angular forms are cloaked in green-toned metal<\/p>\n

“The form emerges from a tension between compactness and environmental integration,” Gala\u0301n told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Defined as a compact volume to reduce heat gains and losses in a relatively extreme climate, the geometry of the house ensures cross-ventilation and multiple orientations for each room,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Compactness reduces heat transfer and limits the building’s physical impact on the continuity of the arboreal mass, which is essential for local wildlife.”<\/p>\n

\"VerandaA spacious veranda wraps around the home’s southern edge<\/p>\n

Camp Alliances is accessed through a sheltered entrance at its northern end. Meanwhile, at its southern end, a large veranda conceptualised as a “climatic buffer” has been raised on yellow-toned columns to meet the home’s ground floor.<\/p>\n

A spiral staircase leads up to the outdoor area, which is sheltered by a ring-like canopy shaped to accommodate a tree growing through a void in the home’s structure.<\/p>\n

“Instead of elevating occupants above the treetops in a panoramic or surveillant manner, [the veranda] situates them right below the treetops,” Gala\u0301n said.<\/p>\n

\"LivingOpen-plan living spaces are held on the ground floor<\/p>\n

Expansive glazing lines the southern facade, where sliding doors open up from the veranda into an interconnected living, kitchen and dining area.<\/p>\n

Inside, the ground-floor spaces are divided by a flexible sliding partition, distinguishing a kitchen and seating area at the rear from a lounge and lofty dining room.<\/p>\n

\"KitchenTiled flooring and wood-lined surfaces define the space<\/p>\n

Tiled floors and wood-lined surfaces unite the ground floor spaces and are paired with thin green-coloured columns and sheer curtains.<\/p>\n

At the opposite end of the home, a spiral wooden staircase wrapped in green metal rises from the entrance hall to the home’s upper floors.<\/p>\n

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Here, a series of ensuite bedrooms and additional living areas sit beneath the home’s pitched and sawtooth roofs.<\/p>\n

A stripped-back material palette of wooden floors and white-wash walls is complemented by windows framing views of the forest.<\/p>\n

\"DiningEach room benefits from dual-aspect windows<\/p>\n

OF Architects and Gala\u0301n also integrated an on-site water management system into the home and surrounding landscape due to the absence of sewage infrastructure.<\/p>\n

This system temporarily stores water before separating it and filtering it, before eventually being reintroducing it to the environment.<\/p>\n

“The project engages the site both by reducing its environmental footprint and by contributing to ecosystem regeneration,” Gala\u0301n said.<\/p>\n

\"BedroomEnsuite bedrooms sit beneath the home’s pitched and sawtooth roofs<\/p>\n

OF Architects and Gala\u0301n previously collaborated on a metal-clad home in Madrid, designed to reinforce social networks for an ageing couple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other Spanish homes recently featured on Dezeen include a minimalist dwelling organised around a central courtyard in Costa Brava<\/a> and a concrete residence with a sunken courtyard in Tarragona<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Imagen Subliminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angular\u00a0forms cloaked in green-toned metal make up Camp Alliances, a family home in Spain by Madrid studio OF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,3262,1573,267202,3088,267203,462,218056,61745,61746,267201,2020,80687],"class_list":["post-539175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-green","tag-houses","tag-ignacio-g-galu00e1n","tag-metal","tag-of-architects","tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","tag-sawtooth-roofs","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-single-pitch-roofs","tag-spain","tag-spanish-houses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}