The formal and organizational simplicity of the interior contrasts with the juxtaposition of materials of different nature, which allow to generate the transition between the sea and the city, creating a home related to its surroundings.
Description of project by Raum 41-42
The project is about a comprehensive reform in an apartment located on the fifth floor of a building a few meters from the sea.
The distance to the beach and the height location of the same, place it in a privileged position from which it only perceives, frontally, in its eastern orientation, the ocher and beige tones of the sand, and the turquoise of the water of the Mediterranean Sea.
In its backside, to the west, it develops the urban space formed in its majority by repetitive blocks typical of coastal urbanizations of the 70s.
The house is organized in plan from two longitudinal programmatic bands, which contain respectively the area of the bedrooms and the living room-kitchen (facing the sea).
The organizational simplicity contrasts with the complexity in terms of use of the material, which reflects the gradation between the sea and the city. Turning the interior into a kind of "device" that connects both spots.
Three autonomous vertical planes, each resolved with a different type of material, order the space: a varnished DM partition separates the main room from the living area. The kitchen area is separated from the secondary bedrooms thanks to a mini-wave aluminum sheet partition. A plan built from u-glass pieces, with fiberglass insulation inside, limits the bathroom space, facilitating light entry and, in turn, generating a thermal mattress to the west.
These "devices" cannot be touched, they are presented in the space as autonomous units, they cohabit inside, enhancing the differentiation of each of the spaces they generate, producing friction, contrasts and ruptures, which, understood as dialectical provocations, give rise to eclectic images between the synthetic and the natural, the banal and the sophisticated, the warm and the cold, respectively of the domestic space and of the industrial architecture. The ground plan, on the other hand, enhances this transition. It is clad in sand-colored micro-cement in areas that face the sea, and gray in the rest.
It is a simple system in its approach, in which formal abstraction and organizational simplicity contrasts with a changing interior resulting from the juxtaposition of materials of a different nature generating different textures and colors, which act as a counterpoint to the organizational clarity of the house.
The interior defines the transition strategy between the sea and the city, enhancing certain qualities of the material and freeing it from others previously established. The house promotes the "symbolic promenade" between the two mentioned centers. The distance to them dictates the relative position of each of the devices.
