Location: Calle Jesús, Valencia, Spain. Grandpa´s houseJesusas is the result of a house renovation in the city centre of Valencia. The house is located on a 1934-sbuilding that belongs to the rationalist Valencian era.
The curved facade, big bay windows, and tubularrailings and details will set the language of the renovation and recovery of the original detailsBonjo and Miguel, our clients, confided their family patrimony to us so that we could recreate thecharacter and story not only of the building and the house, but that of their loved ones.
The firstapproach was mindful. Every detail and material brought us closer to the original house. The discoveries: The original mosaic floor was covered by the 90´s terrazzo tiles, with arches in thetransitions between spaces, and moldings and ceiling details that create a very unique atmosphere.
Thegoal now was to transform it into a unique house for Miguel and Bonjo. The program and a modern lifeBeyond the original details that helped us build up a unique language for the intervention, it wasimportant to add up the ingredients of our clients´ daily life.
One is passionate about cooking and theother is a tireless engineer that is currently working remotely. This required clear house zoning. Someprivate areas for working and resting and a generous and open space open to all the friends they lovehaving around.
One of the main interventions was to connect the kitchen with the living and dining roomand to understand all three spaces as one. This space thus becomes a public area, absorbing the lightthrough a balcony and a big bay window and creating a nice airflow through the apartment.
A pleasantbreeze. An original doorway arch connects the public and the private space through the corridor. This geometrycreates a pattern that is replicated in all the doors, using coloured and textured glass as a reminder of theoriginal materials and changing the scale of the space.
The corridor becomes a complex space full of lightand visual connections. The bathrooms allowed us to play and experiment with the proposed colourpalate. The bedroom resolves a sensitive issue, the poor acoustic insulation of the building.
This isachieved while implementing the concept formal resources: Soft geometries and the preservation andrehabilitation of the original moldings. Colour and materialityThere were memories from the clients about the original colours from the very first conversations, so wedecided to build a story about it.
The palette colour is the appreciation and recognition of somelandmarks of the apartment's past. We can highlight the green patterned custom-made kitchen bench (byHuguet Mallorca), the warm coloured glass as well as
