001 — 38.5667° N, 7.9135° W
Residential · Completed
House of Silence
Two stacked concrete volumes hold a house organised around a single, windowless room of silence.
01Concept
A house that listens. Thick walls of board-formed concrete mute the plain, while a single slot of sky above the central hall tells the time by the light it lets in.
Brief
A retreat for a writer and a composer who needed acoustic privacy, thermal stability and almost no maintenance.
02Design challenges / Design solutions
Design challenges
Summer temperatures above 40 °C on an exposed ridge with no shade.
Design solutions
Walls 60 cm thick with a ventilated cavity, and a cantilevered upper volume that shades the south face.
Design challenges
A requirement that no interior surface reflect sound.
Design solutions
Cast-in board grooves and lime-plastered ceilings scatter and absorb sound without added linings.
03Image sequence
04Conceptual plans
Interactive plan
Drag to pan. Use the buttons to zoom. Rooms can be selected with touch, mouse or keyboard.
Conceptual visualization — not an approved construction document.
Levels
Select a room to see its notes.
Legend
- Living
- Private
- Service
- Circulation
- Outdoor
Rooms
05Material palette
Board-formed concrete
Raw, unsealed
Limestone
Honed
Smoked oak
Oiled, matt
06Project in numbers
- 480 m²
- Area
- 26 months
- Duration
- 60 cm
- Wall thickness
- 11
- Rooms
- 112 %
- Energy produced vs used
07Design team
Fictional studio. All content is illustrative demo material.
Elias Varga
Founding Principal
Noor Haddad
Design Director
Jonas Lindqvist
Technical Director
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