Shelter in the Vineyard is a project designed by Ramón Esteve, covers an area of 415 m2 and is located in Fontanars dels Alforins, Spain. Photography by Mariela Apollonio.

Shelter in the vineyard is located in the municipality of Fontanars, on the outskirts of the urban area, in an area of large areas of cultivation. The project seeks the maximum landscape and environmental integration, due to its border location between a pine forest area and the vineyards of the farm, practically diluted in the vegetation. The decision to develop the whole program in a single plan, in addition to the materiality chosen, which contributes coherent tones with the place, contributes to this.
How the Form is Generated

“This rural shelter takes as a generative idea the traditional typology of rural housing with a gable roof, to apply a new spatial concept”, Ramón Esteve.
Its geometry consists of schematizing the perimeter line that defines the traditional house to extrude it later, forming an envelope under which the whole project will be developed. This line-concept, converted into a long shell of concrete, articulates the whole program of the house and is traversed transversally by the rooms materialized as boxes of pine wood.

“The volume is composed of two monolithic structures that form two large masses differentiated by their material, one of white concrete, both inside and outside, which is intersected by structural boxes of he...