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Turns grandfather's rammed-earth barn into budget dream home
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2023
- Up until recently, Jordi Salvia's hometown in rural Catalonia used rammed earth bricks as an ancient and effective method to keep barns and houses cool and affordable.
Despite working in Barcelona, Salvia decided to turn a dilapidated barnhouse built by his grandfather in their village outside Lleida into a modern, efficient house for his family - at a fraction of the cost of renovations relying on modern materials (with weaker climatic performance).
Inserted into a narrow rectangular plot with no possible openings to the sides, the renovation removed floors and inserted lofty voids to create mezzanines designed to allow natural light into the house's several courtyard-like spaces.
The house includes a double-height living room with a custom cast-iron fireplace for the winter and access to a terrace, a vaulted living area for hosting big gatherings for family and friends, and an indoor courtyard on the first floor that stays cool in summertime and warm in winter.
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As the architects of this house renovation (Hiha Studio) we were given the task of updating and adapting two separate houses, which were connected by traditional rammed earth party-walls. The house, located in a village near Lleida, Catalonia, represents the typical architecture of the region. To meet Jordi’s family needs, we removed floors and created new double-height spaces and light-filled courtyards within the building.
By selectively emptying the existing structure, we achieved the project goals and saved costs. We eliminated unnecessary elements and reduced the remodeling area. The design included six vertical openings on the first-floor landing, providing views of the double-height living room. These modifications allowed natural light to permeate the entire house and created visual connections between rooms.
The house's entrance on the lower-ground floor was inspired by traditional farmhouses, and the daytime activities are centered on the ground floor, with a living room, kitchen, dining room, and sheltered terrace. Bedrooms and bathrooms occupy the first floor. Throughout the renovation, we stripped the house down to its essence, emphasizing the value of materials, textures, and colors. The rammed earth walls played a crucial role in regulating moisture, temperature, and acoustics within the house.
All in all the process went smoothly and both Jordi and us were glad with the result.
Thank you Kirsten for your interest in the house and thank you Jordi for your heartful explanation and showing it around.
Beautiful design and engineering. Great work!
I am impressed with how you provided so much flow and light while still maintaining privacy. An excellent balance.
It’s beautiful!!!! 😍😮
Great design and it seems very livable.
I wonder whether the rammed earth walls has any sort of surface treatment to help protect the dirt. I have seen videos introducing rammed earth being used in Chinese villages too for construction. For refurbishing those houses, they treated the surfaces with a treatment to help strengthen the walls and prevent the dirt from loosening. It also improves moisture resistance and insulation.
Brilliant play of light! The sacrifice of square footage was well worth it! It’s the classic quality over quantity equation. Love it!
Beautiful ancestral home. What a great homage to his elders both past and present.
Very nice contrast of natural textures set against the neutral white walls, and excellent dynamic light throughout every space. No day or time is the same.😍
What wonderful mysteries the house has with its privacy balance with light.
Beautiful , spacious house.
Modern, minimal, open, great renovation 👍
The home’s soul has been rejuvenated with all the new energy ❤
Makes you really want to live in the space, it is absolute perfection, created with such care and attention to detail and complete respect to the past.
That is always our goal. Thank you for the nice comment
I think empty space in this house plays the same role as silence in music or white space in design,
they are there to amplify our perception of its opposite.
They are great team players. They disappear so that the other one shines.
We always hope our projects can achieve that. Thank you for your words.
@@hihastudio De nada, ha sido un placer, la sigo a Kirsten de hace años y disfruté mucho de su video.
I bet children have a blast, hide and seek would be fun in that house.
That's extraordinary.
A very modest appearance from the outside, opens up to a light and airy interior.
In Mediterranean countries you shut yourself in in the summer because it is too hot, in the winter because of the cold. AC and heating were of course not used. I live in an old Spanish town where people still live like this.
I love the integration of old with new. What a bright and comfortable space for family!
I just love this design, it's a genius use of space, voids and light. Thank you, as always your videos never fail to bring old innovations into useful functions for modern day homes..
This house is stunning. What great ideas he incorporated into it to bring more light into the home.
Ram earth construction is definitely reflected in a lot of the original ranch adobe building and Spanish missions in SoCal. Definitely like the way the wall section was displayed in the house.
PS - In summer, adobe buildings always offer relief from the heat! Unfortunately, earthquakes make ram earth / adobe building unsustainable due to earthquake risk in SoCal
PS2 - what an incredible fantastic reuse / redesign of this house! So many interesting spaces!
Thank you for bringing up the subject of earthquake safety. I wonder whether there are methods to strengthen rammed earth walls - during construction - to make them flexible and earthquake resistant?
I just looked up the earthquake hazard rating for Catalunya - it's at "medium", which means 10% risk over the next 50 years...
'A connection from the past to the future' what a wonderful sentiment and Jordi certainly captured it in his home. 😊😊😊😊
"ok. why not?" Awesome
A respectful conversion of a traditional Spanish family home, into something architecturally interesting and functional. The terrace is quite something too. I also like the natural and textural "rammed earth" walls, in contrast the smooth modern finishes! ¡Bravo Jordi!
Thank you very much for the comment
@@hihastudio You're welcome, this is excellent work. I am a graphic designer and digital artist, and understand well the necessity of good light, and also the balance of textures in a home. My work uses both. Well applied NLP is essential in a home.
Beautiful space. They really opened up the space and brought in the natural light. Bravo! 🌞
This is what I love about giving existing structures new life...there is so much room for reimagining the space with massive creativity.
What a gift to envision something like this and then execute it, with ... total success.
Thank you very much for your comment. A project is always as much the result of the architect as is of the client. In this case, we are very proud of it and that was the result of a great dialogue with a great client
This is so uplifting and soothing! Another wonderful living space.
Wish I had a big family like Mr Salvias, must be wonderful to have them all over to celebrate life.
The dance between natural light and the eclectic mix of materials presents a rhythm that is a delightful tease to the senses!
Best channel ever. Keep it real, you guys stay grounded and keep doing what you do.
What a beautiful home!😍😀
This man's architectural foresight is incredible. The home has a wonderous atmosphere.
Thank you for the nice comment
Very nice! One of my favorite places on the planet. If I ever have to leave Monterey, I would hope to land in Catalunya.
Amazingly beautiful.
Loved it!
This dude is amazing! What a beautiful , tasteful exposure of the past. Incredible living space. People like him should be designing my future off grid home!!!
Gorgeous!! talented team.
Very light but also retains privacy. Fascinating home. Thank you for sharing it.
Beautiful house!
Wow...fantastic! His foresight, creativity and design are absolutely brilliant! Is this man an architect or did he hire one to help him achieve this??? It's an incredibly functional work of art!
We are Hiha Studio, the architects Jordi hired to renovate his house. The house is very much the result of a great dialogue with a great client (Jordi).
@@hihastudio Great work all of you, Jordi included!
Love these looks at buildings that celebrate ingenuity over bank account. That dining room table! If my family gathered around that, we’d need a referee on one end and someone with a first aide kit on the other.
Stunning!!!
I love the original parts of the house alongside the new. The effect is that it adds a lot of character to the house. Me encanta también que haya tanta luz del sol. ¡Bonita!
Gorgeous... Evolving your forefather's architecture... what a gift.
Dibs on the honour of being first to comment on this wonderful channel for this video! Amazing work and great education for those of us working on rebuilding the lost homes in Galicia and beyond.
I get the temptation. But claiming first is really lame and a little bit obnoxious.
@@louiselincoln😂😂😭👏🏾thank you for this reply
@@louiselincoln just don't was already old 20 years ago and its only getting worse.
@@MusikCassette You clearly have too much time on your hands…grow up and learn to be kind. If you don’t like something, fine. Just shut up and move on. Don’t waste your life on criticising others. Maybe think about how that negative voice criticises yourself, every single moment of every single day. Can’t imagine the hell you live in, inside your own head. Fight it, tame it, and move on. I wish you all the best.
@@againstthegraingolf301 Thank you for some sanity in the sh**storm of this! 🥰
What a beautiful transformation 😍
Beautiful light in this space!
Beautiful interior. Well done. ;O)-
Planning the use of light to illuminate everything by opening or removing portions of the old structure results in magic. All that light planned for seasonal or daily tracking with exposed original materials is so harmonious. Could do photo essays of every season in each room just dancing with the light. I'd want too put potted miniature olives & citrus in each 'courtyard.' Spain has/does the coolest buildings of any where consistently.
An absolutely beautiful design and attention to detail = the light is amazing! Thank you for the many ideas!
This man's vision and renovation are beautiful! Opening up to light is heavenly! Thank You for sharing~truly enjoyed this video~~
Incredible ideas with an incredible budget. Another great video :-)
What an awesome home, it feels so cosy like a nest with secure places outside,What I miss are plants in the outside aereas, they feel naked and empty to me. But that´s only my aesethic.
As l toured through here with this video, the name Escher kept screaming out at me, especially after the go-nowhere staircase left in place! But l am not surprized to see how artistic people can be. My very favourite architect, Antoni Gaudi, was born and died in Spain.
All the natural wood, stone, brick and use of glass has the feel of a very high end gallery or small museum. As an artist, waking up in this monumentally artistic and impressive space would have my brain just racing with artwork ideas every single day! This house is beyond AMAZING!! Livin' the dream!!🎉🎈🥳🎈🎊👍🏻😄🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
Thank you Kirsten, the edition of the video is just fantastic! Was a pleasure to receive you at home 😊
You had me at rammed earth!
I love Spain and the freedom that allows for all their architectural innovations.
it's seldom seen a big house with no luxurious decoration. The only kind of fancy thing is the zebra pattern bed sheet. Everything is earth tone , so comfortable and practical. The glasses and sunlight create the magic artwork. Love this house.
Passive heating and cooling in this day and age of expensive electricity is important and helps us minimise fossil fuel consumption. well done!
Good morning kirsten i'm your fan i always wactching you and your husband ❤❤❤
This is such an amazing house 😍🤩
Fantastic! This is why I watch Kirsten.
What a beautiful place!! Very well done.
Love rammed earth walls.
I love the light show!!!
So nice! Amazing in a time when it seems fashionable to squeeze into tiny homes and spaces, to see someone who values open space. Love it.
Beautiful. 🎉🎉
La gente de Lerida es muy fiel a su tierra.
Thank you !
Absolutely fantastic ! 🤩😍
Stunning !!! Brilliant.
Precious house.
Such a beautiful home! Thanks for sharing.❤
Phenomenal ! ❤it.
This guy has a beautiful mind😮
Such a beautiful space, the light,tones ,colours ,materials and love. It's outstanding.
What a gem 😍
The foyer section to the north that has the internal balcony w grate & stairs to south wall, where some light gets in from glass doors and windows may have been a bit under-shown. I sort of think if the owner did a drone cam w/ not much more time given to it and possibly a 360 wide angle approach at the base of that room, which I suppose is for chilling and relaxing. Other than that your legacy recordings of amazingly creative dwelling reuse always floor me!
LOVE IT
Lovely house
Beautiful design
*Where are the TREES* ? I've never seen a residential area with no trees at all.
I noticed that too. Odd.
inside or outside?
It’s agricultural land useful farming, the trees line the edges of the farming plots.
It's not a residential area, it's probably a Spanish 'Pueblo'. Pueblos, or villages, are mixed-use areas with stores, services and small businesses. Pueblos tend to be surrounded by green areas but rarely inside of the village, to prevent the town to become too large so it's walkeable.
why don't you go there and gentrify it to your liking?
Me encanta... El pasado decorando el presente y el futuro.
Cm no podía ser de otra manera en Catalunya, que tienen mucho arte. Es simplemente alucinante!! 😘👍😘
Muchas gracias por el comentario tan bonito ☺️
It would be interesting to know how much of the design of the house was discovered during the build and how much was pre-planned.
Knowing the land, we already knew the town was mainly built with rammed-earth, so the idea to uncover this preexistance was embedded in the project since its inception. Then of course, the construction makes you change, uncover, discover & rethink many things. But showing all of this material richness was one of the guiding principles since the beginning.
Lovely house ❤!
Wow, incredible use of old building and bringing modern design to this old building. Would like to know the architect who helped.
We are Hiha Studio, the architects Jordi hired to renovate his house. The house is very much the result of a great dialogue with a great client (Jordi).
Brilliant!
nice design
Built to last hundred of years.
Outstanding
stunning structure
If you wanna make it dirt cheap, make it out of dirt.
But, don't make it out of cheap dirt.
😂😂😂 👍🏽
Light is as tangible a building materials as the bricks.
Wow 😮😍👍
Is there any coating on the earth walls?
I think that is what his Father was getting at, how it wasn't covered. I think you can get away without sealing if it's not exposed to rain or high humidity.
Visiting SoCal missions, all smooth walls were also dirt ground to make a fine plaster / whitewashed. As I recall it had to be roughly the same material so as not to trap moisture.
the word of the day 'VALUE' 😆
We don’t use this kind of building where I come from because because of bug infestations.
When it rains, what about drainage??
I live in Albany NY. Can you help to transform a foreclosed property into a dream home?
he hee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For me it has a feel of an institution, like a church or seminary from the 1970s. It’s a no from me.
Nothing cheap here 😂😂😂
Alhambra Castle was made with rammed earth, made by islamic sultans, did not mean you were poor
S hite.