Vallirana 47 is an anonymous and discreet building. Its value doesn´t lie within any singular identity, but in the sense of continuity. The work consists of the refurbishment of 5 of the 6 dwellings in the building, and the common spaces. Four apartments with a similar distribution in the first and second floors, and a different one in the ground floor, due to its height, the spaces are more vertical and mezzanines appear as a spatial extension in all of the rooms. Aroused by the intervention idea of the client “pontejos (conservation and preservation)”, we brought the project to a high level of hybridization between the new and the old. We worked with the identity of the building in a way that is both continuous and disruptive.
The new spatial arrangement is superimposed to the existing one in an expressive way, through friction and displacement. Pavements and ceilings incorporate the order and hierarchy of the original spaces, while the partitions collect, at the same time, part of this memory and its transformation.
Many materials and elements of the building were reused, which maintain its atmospheric continuity. Everything that was added, links with this continuity from the most tactile aspects to the most abstract ones.
Finally, we built a density of layers of perception and information in the interiors, which provides complexity and meaningful vibration, which at the same time generates visual comfort, deliberately away from the smooth and anonymous surfaces.