Homes We Love: Every day we feature an exceptional area submitted by our community of designers, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here.Project Information: Place:L’Ametlla del Vallés,
Spain From the Architect: “When we first entered this house designed by Lluís Vintró 50 years ago, we were speechless. We could smell the ’70s fragrance in the materials, in the Miguel Milà lamps, and in the geometry of the inclined walls that surrounded us, making it hard to know precisely where you were standing in relation to the entire place. The young couple that owned the place now trusted us and gave us flexibility to reinterpret it as we pleased with one single and apparently basic request: they wanted to populate the place with more liberty.”We looked at the initial geometry and paused to study it before drawing
a single line. We found a triangular mesh that acted as a guide to draw the walls. These walls and circulation was just among many possible analyses of the mesh, forming variations of hexagons and octagons. We took special notification at a lengthened hexagon that was duplicated in various areas. This shape, being part of Lluís Vintró’s original task, sat conveniently in your house. It might be moved, rotated and turned easily following the triangular mesh, up until it discovered its ideal area. We followed this thread and weaved subtle changes in the triangular mesh, rearranging it like a video game of tangram. New relationships of nearness, openness, and privacy, however also of the product limits and the intangible volumes, started to be developed between the hexagons and octagons.”The resulting area wound up appearing like a forest with cleanings that invited us to stop briefly, play, and rest.
Living without doors, exploring the architecture. That’s how we envision that this home could be lived. “