Apartment interior design

  • Pamplona / Spain
  • 2007
  • completed

Apartment interior design

  • Pamplona / Spain
  • 2007
  • completed

Pre-existences and conditions

  • an anodyne flat from the 70's with many small rooms (one of them 1,7m wide!)
  • complicated distribution of the floor plan with residual corners, loose columns and dark corridor
  • very ugly existing wardrobes, shelves, cabinets (that the owner needs and can not afford to change in this stage) are against some of the walls
  • the flat overlooks to a very noisy street
  • the client has a small collection of paintings that would like to place along the walls

Concept and solution

  • eliminating some partitions leave a clean, loft-like room (only kitchen and bathroom are kept)
  • (for functional need the middle wall was kept in the second version)
  • wet rooms are treated externally to look like 'boxes' cast in the loft room
  • colour, texture and a line of fluorescent lamps on the upper edges remark the boxes
  • all the room (except the boxes) is covered with a curtain bringing unity to its irregular shape
  • the curtain hide irregularities, columns and existing furniture and help to reduce the exterior noise
  • the tube of the curtain is used as rail to hang the paintings; flexible, easy to use and no need to drill