La Nogareda, 2022
Partial renovation of a rural house in Olot, Girona.
Two guest rooms with opened bathrooms transform spaces that were originally inhabited by animals. One red, the other one green. The project establishes a series of formal and scalar plays, combining new and existing vernacular elements of the house giving the unusual proportions of the rooms.
Considering the space is at the ground floor level of the house with little natural light, the use of white paint and a big mirror increases the brightness of the space that was once inhabited by animals. This simple trick emphasizes some rock protuberances coming out of the wall and contrast with the existing timber beams, playing a formal game with the new domestic elements of the room. The old drinking trough for cows becomes a shelf that illuminates the ceiling vaults of the shower.
Partial renovation of a rural house in Olot, Girona.
Two guest rooms with opened bathrooms transform spaces that were originally inhabited by animals. One red, the other one green. The project establishes a series of formal and scalar plays, combining new and existing vernacular elements of the house giving the unusual proportions of the rooms.
Considering the space is at the ground floor level of the house with little natural light, the use of white paint and a big mirror increases the brightness of the space that was once inhabited by animals. This simple trick emphasizes some rock protuberances coming out of the wall and contrast with the existing timber beams, playing a formal game with the new domestic elements of the room. The old drinking trough for cows becomes a shelf that illuminates the ceiling vaults of the shower.
The tunnel-like shape of the space and its plaster
vaults makes the room ambiguous in scale. Is the ceiling too low? Or it may be that
the furniture is out of scale. It is,
but also not, at least not only. The old drinking trough for cows becomes a
shelf that illuminates the ceiling vaults of the shower.
The second room is completely the opposite. The room was so tiny that making the bathroom be part of it helps to maximize the space. Three light green wardrobes give certain privacy to the shower, and toilet , while defining the space for sleep. The light green tiles get integrated with the bright tones of the walls and allow for a more relaxed visual relationship with the space.
Photographer: Pol Masip
The second room is completely the opposite. The room was so tiny that making the bathroom be part of it helps to maximize the space. Three light green wardrobes give certain privacy to the shower, and toilet , while defining the space for sleep. The light green tiles get integrated with the bright tones of the walls and allow for a more relaxed visual relationship with the space.
Photographer: Pol Masip