How an ‘anarchistic’ renovation of a San Sebastián apartment challenges traditional family values

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Architect
Ismael Medina Manzano
Client
Private
Floor Area
80 sq-m
Dubbed The Unplanned Domestic Prototype, the project is an experimental retrofit of an 80-sq-m 1960s-era apartment, shaped by the rigid housing policies of Spain in the 1950s.
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