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Project
Apartment in Gran Via
Location
Valencia, Spain
Authors
Quadrat Estudio
Promoter
Private/Privado
Photography
Mariela Apollonio
Published
Grupo Arca México

The project responds to the commission to refurbish offices located on the Gran Vía in Valencia and convert them into a home.

The original layout consisted of a number of rooms connected by a long, dark corridor. The intervention proposes a reorganisation of the space in order to bring light into the interior of the house and give it a higher quality. During the process, it was observed that the original mouldings had been hidden by a lowered ceiling. It was decided to recover the original height of each room, leaving the mouldings visible and carefully restoring them.

A restrained range of colours was used: white on the walls and ceilings, and handmade rectangular ceramic floor tiles. This flooring gives continuity to the whole space and enhances the beauty of the ceilings.

At the same time, a restrained, expressive and uncomplicated palette of materials lends strength and significance. This organisation of materials and the construction solutions adopted are intended to give priority to the house's passive behaviour and high energy efficiency.

It is, above all, a house that champions craftsmanship, something that always alludes to manual work, irrefutably analogue, in which technique is favoured over technology and the idea of craft, of ‘making’, is recovered.