Hemeroscopium House by Ensamble Studio

This Hemeroscopium House, which was completed in 2008, is definitely like no other house. Ensamble Studio has made this house possible to live. This house is located in Madrid and is sized four thousand three hundred square foot. This residence is a notable combination of weighty infrastructural pieces. Hemeroscopium was once a place where the sun sets for the Greeks. It was a citation to a place that lives only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and alterable, but is nevertheless real.

This house disposed heavy structures and big actions in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. The arrangement in which these structures are piled up creates a helix that sets out from a stable support, and develops upwards in a sequence of elements that become lighter as the structure grows, closing on a point that closes the system of equilibrium. There were totally seven elements. The design of their joints responds to their constructive nature and their stresses express the structural condition they have. By the way this structure is organized, the house becomes airborne, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows with life. Hemeroscopium house materializes the peak of its equilibrium with what in Ensamble Studio paradoxically call the “G point”. It is a twenty ton granite stone, expression of the strength of gravity and a physical weight to the whole structure.