Twobo Arquitectura organises Casa Tres Patis around distinct patios (near Barcelona) [View all]

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/08/06/twobo-arquitectura-casa-tres-patis/









A covered walkway connects the series of pavilions and patios that make up this house near Barcelona, designed by local studio Twobo Arquitectura. Named Casa Tres Patis or House of Three Patios, the 300-square-metre family home is located in Albons, close to the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Empúries. The living spaces are split into three steel and concrete-framed pavilions, organised around three distinct patios that Twobo Architectura call a "foundational element" of Mediterranean dwellings.













"We wanted to recover the patio as a foundational element of Mediterranean dwelling – already present in Greek and Roman architecture – and make it the true gravitational centre of the project," studio founder Pablo Twose told Dezeen. "The house is conceived from the patio: the aim was to create an autonomous domestic landscape, with its own internal logic, almost like a microcosm, where open space is as habitable and essential as the built," he added. The three pavilions divide the home into living spaces, bedrooms and guest areas, with each of the three external patios referencing traditional Mediterranean typologies.













A large kitchen and dining area overlooks the entrance patio, which is intended to evoke the social atmosphere of town squares, planted with a central tree surrounded by a pétanque court. Alongside it is a patio with a shallow pool that nods to an impluvium – shallow rainwater pools found in Roman homes that were used for bathing and passive cooling.













The third patio at the southern end of the site features an aromatic herb garden based on those found in monastic cloisters, strategically positioned alongside an outdoor kitchen and dining area. Casa Tres Patis's internal spaces are purposefully arranged to necessitate moving through these patios, with a sheltered concrete walkway connecting the northern living volume to the central bedroom pavilion and the southern guest areas, garage and workshop.

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