Casa en espina de pez | Piano Piano Studio

Max and his parents live in the same house. They usually arrive together, but in the future Javi and Monica imagine themselves relaxing on the living room sofa or organizing a party with friends on the terrace and Max can get to his study area without the need to disturb or get involved in their daily lives.

Making the most of the opportunity offered by the two existing access doors and the numerous light entrances has been the starting point to solve an elongated and narrow apartment with a layout so typical of the housing in the Eixample.

Our design priority has been to trace circular paths in order to dilute and blur the longitudinality of the floor plan, also reinforcing with this gesture the cross ventilation and natural light inlets.

Thanks to the layout of endless views and circular paths, the corridor is a game of expansions and contractions, full and empty, lights and shadows at the mercy of the users, thus achieving a highly fragmented but continuous distribution within a narrow and elongated block.

The consequent spaces of the program are articulated and linked through long visual axes, both these infinite views and the rooms can be compressed and decompressed, opening or closing as needed.

Thus, the house is divided into an open day area, a night area for Max where he can sleep and study, and a second night area where he can have a dressing room and a bathtub.

The main entrance leads to the social part of the house, a living room that expands, thanks to the terrace, almost the same size, that is attached to it.

It is followed by the kitchen as a pavilion open to the day area and the hallway, being this point where the strategy of taking possession of the thorn begins.

Articulating with it through a play of volumes is Max's room. It consists of two pieces of the same size and importance that can be used interchangeably as a sleeping area, reading, study or work chained through the dressing hallway and whose privacy can be controlled by two large sliding doors. This strategy blurs the concept of a single closed room and becomes a discontinuous room that is organized with the succession of rooms, which can be understood as a single space when the two sliding doors are open and three spaces when the doors are closed. In addition to being able to have direct access to Max's small world through the secondary access door.

We end the tour with a suite in which the corridor continues to flow until we reach the end of the room where the parents' area is located. We access the room through a dressing table that leads to the relaxation area consisting of a bathtub accompanied by a shelf and a bed.

With the same intention has been worked the materiality and color in the house. Starting from a neutral suit, the landmarks along the route are splashed with textures and colors. The green color in different textures and tones is the one chosen to make the splashes, as if the large vegetation that the clients have on the terrace entered the interior of the house to arrange the landmarks and erase the longitudinality of the use imposed by the inherited form.