Excerpt: Alba House, an interior design project by Laura Ortin Arquitectura, uses curves as expressive geometry for perfect organization of small spaces, enhancing perspectives, visuals, and sensations. The designers aimed to create a strong partition between day and night areas, using a curvilinear area with thickness and usage while excluding other colours or materials to create a minimalistic aesthetic.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The owners of this apartment bought it with the previous plan of remodeling it. They contacted the office to seek advice regarding the suitability and chances of remodeling. The house had enough square meters, light and an unbeatable location. The rest will be provided by the new design.
The creative process consisted of a “tags cloud”, words taken from their first meeting which helped the clients have a clear picture of ideas (wishlist). Another creative initiative was to include the curve as expressive geometry enabling the perfect organization of small spaces and creating other perspectives, visuals and sensations.
Therefore, a curvilinear area divides the day area (translucent) from the night area (more compartmentalized). The designers did not want this division to be a thin weakling partition. They wanted it to have strength and presence. Thus, they provided it with thickness and usage: kitchen and some living room’s furniture.
In the area of more nightly use of the house, spaces have been opened up and the corridors’ length reduced as much as possible. The main bedroom is equipped with an ensuite divided bathroom to use the space allowing a simultaneous use.
A mainly minimalistic aesthetic is a consequence of the client’s will of having a house charged with “invisible” details, a clean space without unnecessary elements. The designers have chosen three colours: white, grey and wooden. These three tones are constantly repeated throughout the house depending on the room. An exception exists in a bedroom where the pink colour appears as an emerging “pop up” in a children’s room.
Each reform belongs to the people who are going to live there. Therefore, the project rejects other colours or materials consciously and dramatically. Similarly, the project also rejects discordant elements which may hinder the concept of sublime here pursued, searched or needed.
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