A home designed around the journey, the light, and the landscape.
The NE House occupies part of a seemingly neutral plot, with flat topography and surrounded by pine trees. Given these conditions, Blanes Urgoitia Arquitectura proposes a home with a restrained exterior presence, but with a complex interior organization, where courtyards, voids, and different levels create a landscape of their own.
The house is articulated through a sequence of spaces that expands the perception of the home and establishes constant connections between the different floors.
The entrance leads to a large day area where the living room, dining room, and kitchen relate continuously and open up to the pool and outdoor greenery, incorporating the landscape into everyday life.
Gunni & Trentino has collaborated on the project by supplying materials, supporting a design in which architecture, light, and materials are understood as part of the same language.
Paths that shape the space.
Circulation takes center stage in Casa NE. A double sequence of stairs connects the ground floor, basement, and upper floor, while hidden courtyards, skylights, and changes in level introduce new perspectives as you move through the home.
On the upper floor, the bedrooms are arranged around a central void open to the landscape.
Below the roofline, two workspaces rise like an interior beacon, establishing visual connections between the house’s various diagonals and emphasizing its vertical dimension.
Natural light follows these paths, allowing the spaces to transform throughout the day. Openings, courtyards, and shading devices regulate the connection to the outdoors, creating an architecture in which openness and privacy coexist in balance.
Landscape as part of the architecture.
At Casa NE, the outdoors does not merely serve as a backdrop. The pool draws the interior closer, setbacks create new living spaces, and openings frame the sky and the pine treetops, making the vegetation part of the architectural composition.
The continuity between the indoor and outdoor spaces visually expands the home and creates different ways of relating to the surroundings.
The result is a house that transforms an initially regular plot into a spatial experience rich in perspectives, light, and connections.
Casa NE thus proposes a way of inhabiting built from the journey: a home where architecture, landscape, and materiality relate to generate open, connected, and constantly transforming spaces.
