Piera House: A picture of permeability!

Mesmerising as always, the Fran Silvestre-designed Piera House in Burriana, Spain, stuns with its nuanced approach to visual porosity and pristine white beauty. Centred on setting limits while keeping their permeability in mind, Ar. Fran Silvestre employs a riveting use of materiality to craft fluid boundaries. The first border demarcates the street from the house. Opaque for the eye yet permeable for light and air, the fine line arranges sleek aluminium profiles at an angle. It envelopes the ground-floor volume while echoing the elevation of the first floor, creating an illusion of one continuous form. Drawing from the same materiality, […]