Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has completed a new residence as a combination of dwelling and a musician's studio in La Cañada, Valencia, Spain.

Named House of Silence, the house is located in a residential area near Valencia, where neighboring houses are very close to each other. The house features a protruding volume that creates a sheltered terrace towards an outdoor swimming pool.

The architects decided to generate a semi-buried volume on the ground floor to house the recording studio. A concrete enclosure, within another concrete enclosure, with highly studied acoustics. 

This volume divides the ground floor into the entrance hall and the public area of the house, open to the garden and the pool. This level is materialized with natural cement mortars, in their gray materiality, both the exterior as well as the pavement and the pool.

On top of this level, a volume with the night area is deposited, materialized with white lime mortars. Apparently closed to the environment, but open on its fifth facade to its adjoining gardens. A kind of intimate patios where you can enjoy nature and silence.

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Roof plan

Section

Longitudinal section

Model view 

Sketch 

Founded by Fran Silvestre in Valencia, Fran Silvestre Arquitectos is known for clean and all-white geometries and the studio designs many private house across Spain and other countries. 

The firm previously completed Hofmann House with extruded roof in Valencia and a volume-shifting house between the pine forestof Spain. 

Project facts

Project name: House of Silence 

Architects: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

Location: Valencia, Spain

Project team: 

Fran Silvestre | Principal in Charge

Ricardo Candela | Principal in Charge

María Masià | Principal in Charge

Sevak Asatrián | Principal in Charge

Fran Ayala | Principal in Charge

Interior design: Alfaro Hofmann

Building engineer: Carlos García

Size: 285 m2

Structural engineer: Windmill

Collaborators: 

Pablo Camarasa | Collaborating Architect

Estefanía Soriano | Collaborating Architect

Sandra Insa | Collaborating Architect

Vicente Picó | Collaborating Architect

Rubén March | Collaborating Architect

Jose Manuel Arnao | Collaborating Architect

Rosa Juanes | Collaborating Architect

Gemma Aparicio | Collaborating Architect

Paz Garcia-España | Collaborating Architect

Ángel Pérez | Collaborating Architect

Andrea Baldo | Collaborating Architect

Blanca Larraz | Collaborating Architect

Jorge Puig | Ingeniero colaborador

Carlos Lucas | Collaborating Architect

Miguel Massa | Collaborating Architect

Paloma Feng | Collaborating Architect

Alicia Simón | Industrial designer

Marta Soler | Collaborating Architect, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño.

Gino Brollo | Collaborating Architect, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño

Angelo Brollo | Collaborating Architect, MArch Arquitectura y Diseño

Bruno Mespulet | Collaborating Architect

Javi Herrero | Collaborating Architect

Alba Gonzalez | Collaborating Architect

Tatiana Villarroel | Collaborating Architect

Ana de Pablo | Financial Manager

Sara Atienza | Marketing and Communication

All images © Fernando Guerra / @fernandogguerra

All drawings © Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

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