In this house for Julia and her 9 year-old daughter Claudia, four concepts are rehearsed that seek to break with the traditional idea of domestic space:
1. The kitchen as the protagonist of the house. For a long time, the space for food production was banished to the last corner of the house. This project seeks to recover a central position of this space where the act of cooking is made visible, allowing not only the incorporation of other users in this activity but also the relationship with all members of the convivial group.
2. Spatial de-hierarchization. Considering that children spend more than half their time locked up in their room, it is strange to give parents a room bigger than theirs. This provides Claudia with a larger room so that she can develop within it at different stages: as a child, as a teenager and as an adult. It's a house within a house.
3. The atomized bathroom. In front of a bathroom that encloses in its four walls all the pieces (washbasin, shower, toilet) and makes its use incompatible between people with different schedules, we bet for a bathroom where each one of its elements are separated favoring its use by different people in coincidental schedules at the same time that it generates a place of meeting and reunion, as it is the sink counter, when brushing their teeth, combing their hair or cleaning their face.
4. The room with no name. Rarely do any of the rooms in the home space lack a pre-set program. The idea is to leave the house unfinished and think of 'empty' spaces that the user defines over time, as is the case of the room located at the entrance to the house: the same can be a library, a room for the au pair or simply a hall.
