The renovated apartment also offers a place for the couple’s daughter, Candela, to explore and experiment with her design prototypes. The living room is her workshop, where she designs and paints, and which, thanks to its modular furniture, is designed so it can quickly be adapted to different uses—with seating either facing each other or in an L-shape—functioning as a meeting room or a lounge space. As important as maximizing the space and programming every last square inch was to the architects, they also wanted to eliminate the compartmentalized layout and allow natural light in. Plants now fill the entire house. The windows of the interior walls provide transparency and unobstructed views across the apartment, including into the bathroom in the middle of the space.
The architects also made a careful study of the lighting in the unit: Points of light now shine out from circles in cabinet doors, along the floor, in the bathroom mirror, and elsewhere while there is a special drama at night thanks to the Eclipse fireplace, “it’s a sculpture that lets the light from a fire shine through a circle like the sun. It can then be dimmed by a round cover, which acts like the moon during an eclipse,” explains Candela, who was in charge of the lighting design.
This apartment tour was first published by AD Spain. It was translated by John Newton.
