PRO
Works #968
Contemporaneitzant espaisRealized
MIQUEL MERCE ARQUITECTE
| Location | Andorra la Vella, Andorra |
|---|---|
| Year | 2019 |
| Categories | Interior Design > Houses/Villas |
Description Original Language (Catalan)
An existing house, spread over three floors with a hall, "Sunday dining room", closed kitchen and little relation to the life of the house, multitude of rooms and distributors without a specific use... The original project, based on a way of to understand a home deeply rooted in outdated practices; it needed a comprehensive reform not only to renew finishes and installations, but to adapt the existing one to the richness of contemporary life, mobile, connected, convivial and full of richness in its appropriation and uses of spaces. This notion also allows the same project to adapt over time to future requirements, and allows this hybrid space to adapt to further changes or needs...
Conceptually, the rooms are arranged around a "day / life" space of great flexibility and ease of use that allows you to lose the notion of "distributor" for that of "conviviality". This space, continuous between the three floors of the house, allows to improve the relationship between the occupants as well as between the floors. Custom-made furniture facilitates and makes possible this new functionality.
This large "day / life" space, spread over the three floors, is intended to be continuous, fluid and homogeneous, and for this reason the same materials and furniture design criteria have been used. This large living area is made up of:
A completely free and flexible underground floor, with custom-made furniture to be able to transform the space normally with two main functions: Workshop (for models, painting) and projection space. This "normal" configuration can be quickly and easily transformed into a play area, sports room, studio, professional workshop, room or guest rooms...
On the first floor we find a work study, with a reading area, laundry room and ironing space, all with natural light and a terrace, which can be transformed into a complementary guest room thanks to a bed hidden and integrated in part of the furniture this space On the ground floor, we find the kitchen space (closed by glass but visually transparent), the dining room and living room, these three spaces enjoy the main terrace with sun and views.
A bookshelf piece of furniture allows flexible use of this central element in the kitchen-living room space as a whole, at the same time that it is functionally and visually related to the study on the first floor.
This floor includes a workspace / study / bookcase that can also be transformed into a guest room or even closed off as a complementary room in the future. The kitchen / dining room / study furniture on this floor has also used a criterion of homogeneity and has opted for the use of a textured gray finish with copper handles made to measure for the project. Copper is present in other decorative elements as well as in the appliques in the "day / living" areas.
Three closed suite-type rooms (one with dressing room), really necessary for the client's day-to-day life, make up the private, closed and intimate "night" spaces of the rest of the "day / life" area through filters and other elements. These rooms, far from being connected to the rest of the house through corridors and distributors, are directly related to this "day / life" space.
In the master suite, warm wood tones and colors have been chosen, in combination with white and gray tiles. A large filter piece of furniture with glass and artificial light brings intimacy to the room of the "day / life" space while improving the quality and richness of it. In the children's suite, more vivid colors have been chosen as well as the materialization of a Japanese animation character very important to the young client, which has been placed in the large sliding door of access to the bathroom, allowing hanging with magnets as well as on the handles, all designed and made to measure for the project.
This architectural reflection based on uses, program and user needs, has allowed the original spaces to be metamorphosed to adapt them to these needs. The different "night" rooms have been arranged around a large "day / life" space that allows the relationship and exchange between users. This large hybrid space adapts to various uses, and can change shape and distribution easily.