Excerpt: PA(i)Saje House, a home interiors project by Laura Ortin Arquitectura, utilizes a macro-concept to create a comfortable, functional, equipped, and characterized domesticity. The refurbished house features a unique “celosia” with perforations for improved acoustics and sun protection, double circulation, and a night area for privacy. The kitchen, originally relegated to the back, is centralized for a more communal cooking experience.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] “The house as a dream body”
An inherited house usually has its controversy. Perhaps there are many memories that come up when we think about carrying out a reform. We often hesitate, we wonder if we should keep things as they were or perhaps be ourselves and start and dream of a new way of living.
Gaston Bachelard says that “the house, more than a body of housing, is a body of dreams” and that is why we are not one hundred percent free when making decisions for change, emotions that mark those decisions always remain in our memory. So we have to work to translate those emotions to approach a better solution.
“Can a domestic space be a landscape?”
Paisaje (landscape) + Pasaje (passage) = Pa(i)saje
In this project the designers’ aim is to deconstruct the landscape to introduce it into a domestic space. Using this macro-concept they carry out a series of actions that finally lead them to a comfortable, functional, equipped and characterized domesticity. Their references range from Olafur Eliasson’s decontextualized landscape works to traditional Mediterranean houses with their porticoes.
The front area is an open space to generate a continuous daytime space, with a gallery that allows the designers to generate a new previously non-existent balcony and two study spaces, but maintaining the spaciousness and linearity of the living space.
A specific “celosia” is designed for this space whose perforations improve acoustics and protect from the sun. The double circulation allows one to go through the house without having long corridors and the night area is compartmentalized to provide privacy for the night. Originally, the kitchen was relegated to the back of the house, the designers took it to the heart of it since the clients enjoy cooking and wanted it to be in a more collective place.
“Real materials, living materials”
If we seek to create a nature without artifice, the choice of materials that make up the reform have to be natural, worth the redundancy. All the wood with which the furniture and the floor are made is natural pine.
The stone floor is made from polished recycled marble and, in addition to having an incomparable expressiveness, they make the floor have a fresh and pleasant footstep. The handmade character takes shape in all parts of the house, from the woodwork, the floors and ceilings, the hanging lamp.
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