Alfinach Development
Puzol
2025
Residential
Three single-family houses on one plot in Puzol, Valencia, designed as one architectural system. The plot carries exposed rocky outcrops and native Mediterranean vegetation; the project takes the site as it found it. The ensemble reads as a composition rather than a repetition: three objects sharing a common language, a common section, a common constructive logic. From the street, the development presents itself as a single piece; the individual units are legible only at close range.
The existing geology informs the position of each volume, the orientation of each opening, the relationship between built and unbuilt ground. The project does not erase this condition. It works from it.
Architecture, structure and construction were developed simultaneously. This is not a formal project executed through standard means: the industrialised methods are design decisions, not post-completion cost savings. Three houses share the same load-bearing system, the same service distribution, the same roof section, the same envelope strategy. This is what makes the development read as one piece on the ground, even though it is composed of three separate houses.
Rather than treating industrialisation as repetition, the project uses it to achieve precision and continuity. The three dwellings share proportional dimensions: same ceiling heights, same window scales, same detail depths. Curved edges along the building perimeter, derived from the same triangular logic, soften the meeting between built mass and planted ground.
Interior spaces are ordered and spare. Light enters at consistent angles across all three units; materials are continuous, the same palette inside and out. Fixed joinery absorbs separation, storage and lighting, so the open plan reads as a single space without relying on walls. Each house is inhabited as a version of the same architectural sentence: same language, same section, same response to the site.
