Memory of project
The last storey of a 19th century house, located in one of the most central streets of A Coruña, in a maintenance conditions really unfavorable, with a minimum budget, but with all the freedom and confidence of the client for choosing the solutions that we believe better.
The dwelling have the classical space configuration of a gothic plot: long, narrow and reduced plans; what all of us want?: all the opposite. We first consider to empty the whole dwelling, keeping only the central stairs structure. With that, we achieved a continuos free space, wide, defined by a kitchen-bathroom-study-closet furniture; that is, a longitudinal and continuos piece which contains all the necessities, keeping free the main space and giving to the dwelling a spacial and visual continuity.
The solutions we made for the materialization of the idea are absolutely reversible. Basically, the beams are reforced with metallic elements, fir tree wood is used for the longitudinal band and for repairing the stairs structure, and they are painted in white, providing a necessary luminity in the stone walls, floor and ceiling, even more when it is the most economic solution. The result: a neutral volume, white, luminous, diaphanous, acting as container of a wood box for the communications and another longitudinal one which houses the necessary elements for living.
Text.- Sinaldaba.
