Pure open and undefined abstraction. Ronda House by Hanghar
02/10/2021.
[Murcia] Spain
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The renovation project designed by Hanghar studio in the city of Murcia consists of the implementation of an asymmetrical grid that organizes and articulates the pre-existing space.
The 85 m² apartment is located in a building from the seventies in the downtown, where the main feature is to move away from the prefixed and conventional spatial distributions. On the contrary, it is articulated through a series of programmatically generic but spatially defined rooms, in which the user defines itself freely.
The 85 m² apartment is located in a building from the seventies in the downtown, where the main feature is to move away from the prefixed and conventional spatial distributions. On the contrary, it is articulated through a series of programmatically generic but spatially defined rooms, in which the user defines itself freely.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Ronda House by Hanghar. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Floor plan. Ronda House by Hanghar.
Axonometry. Ronda House by Hanghar.
Axonometry. Ronda House by Hanghar.
Furniture plan. Ronda House by Hanghar.
Furniture plan. Ronda House by Hanghar.
Furniture plan. Ronda House by Hanghar.
Formally, the project by Hanghar is characterized by the rectangular dimensions of each room, where they have connected thanks to the use of large central openings.
This is how the limits of use between spaces are diluted, generating visual continuity while the feeling of spaciousness is maximized. These formal decisions are reinforced by the materials and finishes selected, where the architecture becomes the canvas that the user can inhabit at will.
This is how the limits of use between spaces are diluted, generating visual continuity while the feeling of spaciousness is maximized. These formal decisions are reinforced by the materials and finishes selected, where the architecture becomes the canvas that the user can inhabit at will.
Description of project by Hanghar
The home is an exercise of limited resources, in which the reduction of spatial, material and technological solutions allows the maximum flexibility of use. In response to the ever-changing uncertainty we currently live in as a society, the project, the renovation of an existing 85 m² apartment, is conceived as an open and undefined system capable of functioning as a backdrop to whoever inhabits it. A propositional system, not a limiting one.
The home distances itself from fixed and conventional distributions through the linkage of a series rooms that are programmatically generic but spatially specific. With this, the home is able to respond to the demands of a contemporary living and not market driven logics. Spatially, the project is resolved through an asymmetric grid that organizes and articulates the given space. Each room, of rectangular proportions, is connected with each other through a series of large, central apertures, creating a spatial enfilade that communicates all spaces and establishes a visual continuity amplifying the space whilst diluting its use limits.
The project’s material palette is direct and bare. The floor, made out of epoxy resin, erases any sense of scale while the ceiling, rough and cavernous, presents itself ornamentally baroque as a result of the splashed plaster’s imprecision. The cooking area, covered in mirrors, simply disappears. Even though the project’s aesthetics could be described as aseptic, recalling Colomina’s analogies between the Modern Movement and 20th century pandemics, the project’s interior architecture is reduced not as a response to newly defined sanitary standards but social ones. An ambiguous system capable of serving the inhabitant it receives, without projecting fixed and immovable living definitions.
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Architects
Client
Private.
Builder
Miguel Madrid e Hijos S.L.
Area
85 sqm.
Dates
2020.
Location
Murcia, Spain.
Photography
Eduardo Mediero. HANGHAR
HANGHAR is an architecture practice based in Madrid that works on the confluence between architectural precedents and financial organizational models. The practice develops projects from furniture design to housing developments and urbanism. HANGHAR is run by Eduardo Mediero since 2016.
Eduardo Mediero holds a Masters in Architecture with Honors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His work has been exhibited at the XIV Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism, the 16th and 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid. Eduardo is the recipient of the 2018 KPF Traveling Fellowship, the Real Colegio Complutense Fellowship and the Arthur Lehman Fund. He is the inaugural Fishman Fellow at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Eduardo Mediero holds a Masters in Architecture with Honors from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His work has been exhibited at the XIV Biennial of Spanish Architecture and Urbanism, the 16th and 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and the Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid. Eduardo is the recipient of the 2018 KPF Traveling Fellowship, the Real Colegio Complutense Fellowship and the Arthur Lehman Fund. He is the inaugural Fishman Fellow at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
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