Such Great Heights. A four-handed pentouse renovation

The renovation of a small apartment by Irene García and ESTUYO Studio, situated under the roof of a 1920’s building transformed during the 1990’s starts with the owner’s need to have a free configuration space for a life in constant transformation as an artist and architect.

In its 42m2:
> We managed to save the whole flooring made with the original hydraulic tiles and the existing red marbles.

> The roof got waterproofed and insulated, dismantling old ceilings and putting in value the original wooden beams.

> The new apartment’s arrangement creates two mezzanines (one to inhabit, and one technical one), liberating the plan and allowing multiple configurations. The position of the kitchen’s island creates a new central conviviality space, and the polycarbonate separations on the sides of the new separation wall providing natural light from the back of the apartment increasing it’s visual depth

> The existing walls maintain remains of the apartment’s past lives. We maintained the bathroom’s original tiling, that with the new distribution now appears in the new kitchen. Some special areas from the walls have been selected in order to show the multiple layers of intervention the apartment has lived.