Location

Puzol, Spain

Year

2025

Programme

Residential

Area

600 m²

Status

Completed

Client

Private

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.

Alfinach Development, Valencia — a detail of the red ferric rock of the site

Site as starting point.

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.

Alfinach Development, Valencia — a large outcrop of red rock on the site

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the wooded site before building, red earth and Mediterranean pines

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the pine woodland and red earth of the site before construction

Three houses, one constructive logic.

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.

Alfinach Development, Valencia — a visit to the works, people gathered inside the light-steel frame

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the galvanised light-steel frame of the houses under construction

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the light-steel structure rising over the red-earth site, framing stacked on the ground

Alfinach Development, Valencia — inside the light-steel frame, the cut red rock visible beyond

Alfinach Development, Valencia — a site visit along the curved light-steel frame under construction

Alfinach Development, Valencia — a bedroom opening through full-height curtains to the raw red rock outside

Proportion and continuity as tools.

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.

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved sand-render volumes stacking against a clear sky

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved rooflines of the houses, a pine behind

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the pale render volume meeting the red rock of the ground

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved two-storey house above its lap pool, full-height glazing behind sheer curtains

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the cantilevered curved terrace over the pool, black chairs on the deck

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved sand-render facade and pool at golden hour

Interior order.

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.

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved rendered volumes in golden evening light

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the living room, a cream channel sofa and a round travertine table below sheer curtains

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the living room in warm light, cream sofa and travertine table behind sheer curtains

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the dining table with a black bentwood chair and a vase of bare branches

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the living room, a walnut plinth by the cream sofa and a travertine pedestal with a vase

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the living room with two cream sofas around a round travertine table

Alfinach Development, Valencia — a curved render wall meeting a frameless glass corner, wooded hills beyond

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the row of curved house volumes at golden hour behind a slatted fence

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the sculptural curved staircase with pale stone treads, a dark vessel alongside

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved underside of the staircase in warm gradient light

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the sweeping curved forms of the stair void

Alfinach Development, Valencia — an abstract view of the curved plaster staircase

Alfinach Development, Valencia — the curved sand-render facade, terrace and pool at sunset

Alfinach Development

Site as starting point.

Three houses, one constructive logic.

Proportion and continuity as tools.

Interior order.