The project is a small intervention to a 70’s house that was abandoned for some years. The client’s request was to bring the residence back to its previous glory with the intention of re-habitation. The demolition of various interior walls as well as the suppression of its suspended ceiling opened up the space in a horizontal and vertical manner. The use of different materials in some elements generated more illuminated and transparent spaces. Through simple intervention to some elements of the house like doors, windows, openings and finishes, new visual connections between the old structure and the new space were created.

The walls were painted in a light colour to reflect as much light as possible coming from the exterior. The house has beautiful courtyards with deciduous trees that allow the entrance of sunlight in the winter and the preservation of shade in summer.

Public interior spaces had the opaque doors replaced with translucent doors allowing light and colour from the backyard to the interior.

The finishing of the carpentry, smithy and doors is in black matt and glossy stainless steel, adding a simpler, neutral and crisp atmosphere to the interiors.

The bathroom’s black shinny furniture as well as a white ceramic washbasin is placed against a tile wall of the same colour palette so that the glossy stainless steel accessories under the horizontal mirror are emphasised.

The design of the furniture plays an important role to the intervention of the spaces. A white music shelve in the living room brings out the colours of the collection of cd’s boxes of the new owners; a cantilevered from the wall red bar in the hall with or handles, generates an additional volume.

Project Data

Client:
Private

Date:
2009

Credits & Copyrights

Design:
stación-ARquitectura Arquitectos

Text:
stación-ARquitectura Arquitectos & Morfae

Photoes:
Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

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