A kitchenette It can have a great style and bring tradition to the present, with flag functionality. That has been the purpose after the reform of this kitchenette of Mediterranean and minimalist airs by architecture: «The objective was to rescue the original values of the house and integrate them with a contemporary intervention,» they say.
Being a protected modernist house, the intervention has had to be especially careful. “It is a cataloged house, full of architectural details that had passed to the background after some unleashed reforms that the previous owners had made, ”they detail from the office.
“First, we eliminate all the layers of low quality materials that had been superimposed in previous reforms. Upon reaching the original elements, we rescue the maximum valuable elements that we could, combining them with modern materials, ”they add.
The study opted for the microcement as «neutral and artisanal material» that highlights the original pieces of recovered hydraulic, leaving the uncovered ceramics of the roof and brick of the walls. At the same time, kitchen furniture is White and minimalistsa necessary contrast, according to architecture, to add «the functionality necessary for a modern life. ”
A special kitchen
In the cabinets, we find one of the most interesting interventions at the organization level: one of the walls has extragrade columns that allow to store everything necessary and release the rest of the walls, which remain clean and free. It is a solution that visually expands the space, emphasized by the manufacture of all the furniture so that they adapt to the perimeter of the plant, which is not square, but trapezoidal.
Thanks to this choice, the central space is released, another factor that affects the fact that the stay seems bigger. “Before, it was one kitchenettewith little feeling of amplitude, dark, chaotic and, aesthetically, unattractive to be. We needed to get a central space to articulate the housing longitudinally, where several family activities could be developed at the same time, such as eating, cooking, gathering, studying, playing … ”.