MJE House - Little Big Houses

The traditional concept of 'room' is questioned in this holiday housing project located in the Spanish town of Salinas. Movable partitions allow to enjoy three different interior layouts depending on the capacity required by the occupants of the apartment at any time.

Interior. MJE House by PKMN. Photography © Javier de Paz García.

This 70 sqm beach apartment experiences a constant change. The design, framed in the Little Big Houses Project, conducted by PKMN Architectures, plays with the proportion of space intended for the living room and for bedrooms. Thus, a variation in the number of separated spaces is obtained by mobile systems, patented by the study. The result is a more continuous or fragmented interior space, that responds to the needs of the users.

Descripción del proyecto por PKMN

María José and Enrique live in Mexico but travel a lot in Europe. They wanted a second home in Asturias that could be an apartment for the couple and for the whole family at the same time. Through a rotating furniture the two bedrooms of the house may come and go in a minute. The house has three positions and a house with two bedrooms, one bedroom or none of them.

In that way, housing becomes a place to hold a big party for younger or a loft space when Maria Jose and Enrique are alone.

It is the luxury of having a room of nearly 50m2 in a house of 70m².

In Little Big Houses we design mobile systems applied to housing. We change the traditional concept of room creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures.

We obtain the highest possible return on every centimeter of your home to increase its value and maximize opportunities for use of space in your home.

Remember: Every square meter of your home is money...

We want to live it up ...

CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-

Authors.- PKMN architectures / Little Big Houses.
Collaborations.- Alessia Mansutti, Carol P. Linares, Elena Cantoni, Alicia Coronel.
Photography.- Javier de Paz García.
Video.- Javier de Paz García + PKMN.

Dates.- March-July 2014.
Location.- Salinas, Asturias (Spain).

Video showing the mobile systems.-

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Floor. MJE House by PKMN. Photography © Javier de Paz García.

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[pacman] Architectures. PKMN

PKMN is an arch office and collective based in Madrid [Spain] since 2006.

Graduated at Technical University of Madrid, they have been awarded by Università La Sapienza(Rome), Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, Ecole d'Architecture de Paris Val-de-marne, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia in Spain.

Carmelo Rodríguez, David Pérez, Enrique Espinosa y Rocío Pina have collaborated with many offices and practices: Juan Herreros, SOLID (Soto y Maroto), Javier Revillo, MI5 Arquitectos, Enrique Krahe, Andrés Jaque, José Mª Ezquiaga, ZooHaus, F8 Arquitecturas, Carlos Arroyo y Emilio Luque. They do research into technology - typology - construction (applied to consolidated urban contexts, local memory and contemporary cultures); simultaneously they love exploring new architectural fields connecting citizens, identity, pedagogy, communication, game, action and cities, specially throughout strategies of participation, mediation and social innovation, and experimental active learning process. They`re fulfilled diverse projects in Spain such as New Teruel Market Square, Oficina Gratuita de Arquitectura, Europan, Innopia, El Madrileño del Año, Plan Extinción or Museo MASJ in Alcázar de San Juan.

They develop an action and pedagogical workline called "City creates City" (with Diana Hernández, Alejandra navarrete, Carlos Mínguez and Almudena mestre, who have worked with PKMN in another projects) dealing with Spanish universities, portuguese, mexican and argentinian, such as La Coruña, Sevilla, UCJC Madrid, Chihuahua, Mexico DF, Buenos Aires, cities as Caceres, Toledo, Merida or Burgos and companies as Fagor or AENA. They have taken part in exhibitions such as XIII Bienal Buenos Aires, EME3 (CCCB-BCN), Archivo de Creadores (Matadero-Madrid) FreshMadrid & FreshLatino (COAM, I.Cervantes), AlNorte2010 or Post-post-post, and their work has been published by Mark, Pasajes, AV, METALOCUS, El País, El Economista, Arquire, Europan, Fundación Arquia, Future and other media.

Published on: October 21, 2015

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