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News • News • 22 Jan 2021
Mira a showcase of traditional townhouse renovation
Casa Mira is a modern home in Valencia upgraded and adapted to the needs of a bustling family of five.
Mariela Apollonio
The architect, Arturo Sanz, sought to keep the traditional feel of the home intact whilst dramatically upgrading its functionality. The home is located in Benimaclet, once a rural village but via decades of increasing urban density now totally absorbed into the city of Valencia. Despite its unity with the city, the area still holds a strong traditional identity and it was important to the client to keep that older feel and incorporate the historical memory into the design whilst updating the flow of the interior spaces to better accommodate its inhabitants as a cohesive family unit.
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Project • By Arturo Sanz • Private Houses
Claudia House
Benimaclet was an orchard village that was absorbed by the city of Valencia in the second half of the last century. In this village houses coexist with small-scale multi-family buildings, as is the case here: a three-storey building, made up of 6 dwellings, which, on the ground floor and through a central access, gives access in the block courtyard to two-storey constructions belonging to each of the dwellings in the building. The intervention that we present consists of the reconstruction of one of these buildings, belonging to one of the dwellings on the ground floor, and its connection with it. The low construction quality and the habitability problems of this building advised its demolition and volumetric reconstruction.
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