The project involves a comprehensive renovation of a 130-square-meter apartment on the top floor of a four-story building.
The original layout, which was excessively compartmentalized, had the daytime areas separated, with the living room and kitchen at opposite ends, connected by an extensive hallway that led to the bedrooms.
The corner location overlooking a plaza and the existence of a private patio gave the house some truly special characteristics, which the intervention integrates by proposing a reconfiguration of the functional scheme, opting for more open spaces and implementing solutions to help mitigate the sense of depth in the apartment.
In this regard, the first decision was to remove partitions and reorganize the spaces, concentrating public areas in the southern wing and private areas in the western wing. This operation exposes part of the structure, highlighted by two reinforced concrete beams that define the guidelines of the new project and are embraced as elements that determine the formal definition of the intervention.
Against the hierarchy of uses, a skin made of pine wood wraps around the house, integrating all the rooms.
At the entrance, this envelope twists around itself, creating a welcoming entry space that functions as a filter. Beyond this, the living room, dining room, and kitchen (where a concrete brick wall is restored) are arranged sequentially in a single space that enhances the corner condition of the apartment, favoring cross-ventilation and maximizing views of the urban landscape.
The skin extends to surround the patio and guide the path to the bedrooms, shortening the apparent length of the hallway and integrating the access doors to the private areas and wet zones, which are distinguished by the extensive use of color. The use of large mirrored surfaces in various planes distorts the geometry of the rooms and multiplies spatial perceptions, completing the construction of the apartment's interior landscape.
Technical Data
Architects: Xstudio
Client: Private
Builder: Zarymar Inver SL
Woodwork: Carpintería Lomo el Marco
Photography: David Rodríguez
