In San Sebastian, an 861-Square-Foot Apartment Has Some Surprising Features

The house now has two bedrooms as an alternative of three, a big entrance corridor that serves as a dressing room, two loos, and a standard space with a kitchen and dwelling area. It’s organized round a curved wall clad in inexperienced glazed ceramic tiles. “It’s the most important component and never solely serves as a room divider but additionally offers storage options. Round it are positioned a sequence of pantries, cabinets, cabinets, cabinets, and even the loos. It’s an aesthetic second with its reflective qualities and, on the similar time, it offers a coherence to the area,” explains the architect. It sits subsequent to the mirrored kitchen—one other playful addition to the house—and it is just interrupted by a doorway made from San Sebastian sandstone, a standard materials within the area. “The doorway is a mirrored image on the geological layers of the town, nature, the uncooked materials, and even The Comb of the Wind [a group of three monumental steel sculptures by the artist Chillida that sits on the edge of La Concha, the bay that San Sebastian is built around],” the architect provides.

Along with the imposing central set up and the play of mirrors, the condo is outstanding for its use of different uncommon supplies and progressive design options. Within the middle of the frequent space, a desk that may simply be raised or lowered is made from reused Spanish granite and discarded items from native carpentry workshops. Every day life revolves across the desk, which is able to adapting to quite a lot of conditions: a household dinner, moved to the facet for a celebration, or serving as an impromptu workplace or worktop. The remainder of the furnishings, just like the OMHU Teddy couch mattress and the cellular facet tables and flowerpots on wheels, is equally versatile.