As quickly as we opened the door, we had been greeted by a slender, darkish area with a protracted hall operating by way of the entire home giving entry to 5 rooms: a toilet, a big bed room, a small bed room, a kitchen and a living-dining room. We discovered an anodyne structure with an evident spatial poverty by which the proprietor, regardless of having lived there for greater than 10 years, informed us that he had not bought used to it and conveyed his need to present character, brightness and heat to his residence.
Primarily based on the 70 m2 of the home and the proprietor’s necessities, we proposed 3 areas that flowed between them and that might be used as a single area or as three unbiased ones, relying on their wants: bedroom-bathroom, multipurpose room and kitchen-dining-living room.
The three in 1 home is achieved by pulling down some partition partitions and perforating others, giving rise to an ambiguous, infinite and illuminated hall always. This hall will typically be a passageway and at different occasions, if the person looks like altering the openings of the rooms, it may type a part of one in every of them. It’s exactly the non-corridor that’s the spine of the free organisation of the rooms and the route between them, distancing us from the slender and infinite hall that had no different operate than that of being a route.
This versatility of the hall offers a lot energy to the intervention that we are able to perceive the home as a big area, a protracted hall that expands and contracts or as three unbiased areas, which provides it whole flexibility of routes.
With a view to give it a extra marked aesthetic air and to present gentle, brightness and character to the intervention, three colors had been chosen because the driving power behind each the organisation and using the undertaking.
Previous to the refurbishment, the dwelling was, following a useful resource utilized by its proprietor to scale back the gray color of the home windows, painted in gray in its entirety and, along with the matt greyish beige ground and the picket joinery in gentle tones, the picture it provided was removed from being luminous; in reality, fairly the alternative.
As a counter technique, via a composition of three colors that helped to organise a single area subdivided into three, we assigned every of the colors to the weather based on the intention in every of the areas, thus giving clues as to the makes use of and capabilities of every of them.
Thus, within the undertaking, using color turns into an important facet of the intervention with the aim of discovering for the proprietor a house by which to position all his belongings comfortably and to obtain family and friends in a home that’s extra akin to him than it was earlier than.
3 in 1 home by Piano Piano Studio; Residences, Renovation; Valencia, Spain; Architects: Piano Piano Studio; Space: 753 ft²; 12 months: 2023; Pictures:Milena Villalba; Producers: MADENTIA;
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